Re: Where are local mails?

Vojtěch Zeisek <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:53:53 +0100
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Hello

Dne úterý 11. března 2025 12:42:54, středoevropský standardní čas, Frank 
Mehnert napsal(a):
> On Dienstag, 11. März 2025 12:16:30 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit
> Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
> > Dne úterý 11. března 2025 12:04:23, středoevropský standardní
> > čas, Ingo Klöcker napsal(a):
> > > On Dienstag, 11. März 2025 10:47:01 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit
> > > Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > I'm bit confused. I set up IMAP folder in KMail, and from there
> > > > I moved some mails to folder within local folders. That resource
> > > > claims the mails are in
> > > > /home/vojta/.local/share/local-mail/
> > > > KMail as well as Akonadi Console claim there are 31 MB, but
> > > > when I navigate to that folder, it just contain empty directories
> > > > (default structure of Maildir), but in fact it's empty. So, where
> > > > are the mails? Just in the Akonadi database? How do I enforce
> > > > to save them into that Maildir? I wish to have them physically
> > > > on disk, not just in the database.
> > > 
> > > It would be helpful if you would have told us which version of KMail
> > > yo are using. In an older version (> 2 years; probably much longer)
> > > ther was a bug which caused KMail to move only one of the selected
> > > messages to the local folder. The workaround back then was to copy
> > > the messages and then delete them in the original folder.
> > > It takes some time until the files/messages appear in the file system
> > > after a move. The move seemingly happens very fast, but that's just
> > > the update of the location in the database. The files are written to
> > > the file system when a sync happens. I haven't moved larger amounts
> > > of mails to a local folder so that's just what I remember. If the
> > > messages still don't appear after some time then there may be a new bug.
> > 
> > Thank You and sorry, ma bad. I use openSUSE Tumbleweed, so
> > typically newest stable versions, here KMail 6.3.2 (24.12.2), Kf
> > 6.11.0, Qt 6.8.2. I moved the mails a least 10 days ago. I can
> > access them, fine, I just wonder where they are. :-)
> 
> Have a look at
>   $HOME/.local/share/akonadi_maildir_resource_0

Yep, this exists on the 2nd computer, configuration of KMail local folders 
points there, it works as expected. :-)
Funny is that I installed both computers (at home and work) within one week 
from the same openSUSE Tumbleweed ISO. :-)
Sincerely,
V.

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