Re: A mess in KMail

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From: Michael <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A mess in KMail
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:16:20 +0100
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On Sunday, 21 June 2026 07:30:51 British Summer Time Peter Humphrey 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 20 June 2026 16:31:20 British Summer Time Michael wrote:
> > You could try 'clear cache' from within akonadiconsole, after you
> > shut down kmail.  Best you try this ONLY on ONE folder/subfolder,
> > then check the situation within Kmail to make sure it worked. 
> > Large folders may take some time.
> 
> Now that you remind me, I had to do that once before, and it did the
> job.

It worked on one of my systems too, which happened to have incurred a 
database corruption.


> > If the above does not work, you can have a look at this process to
> > recreate everything from scratch:
> > 
> > https://userbase.kde.org/KMail/
> > FAQs_Hints_and_Tips#Clean_start_after_a_failed_migration
> 
> "There were no results matching the query."

The email client broke the URL I quoted in half.  Copy and paste the 
complete string into your browser to get there.


> In the end, there was nothing for it but to follow Google's AI
> recommendation:

In the first instance I'd rather trust the KDE devs and community's wiki 
recommendations, than whatever AI may throw up.  However, I understand 
desperate times call for desperate measures.  :-)


> --------
> If your setup is thoroughly broken, clearing the configuration and
> database files acts as a factory reset.
> 
> 1.    Back up your existing emails via KMail's File > Back Up Data...
> or export rules using the PIM Data Exporter.
> 2.    Close KMail and stop the Akonadi server:
>     akonadictl stop
> 3.    Delete the configuration directories:
>     rm -rf ~/.config/akonadi_* ~/.config/kmail*
>     rm -rf ~/.local/share/akonadi/ ~/.local/share/kmail2/
> 4.    Restart Akonadi and open KMail to reconfigure your accounts from
> scratch. --------
> 
> I was surprised at how much survived that process: most of what can be
> set under the Settings menu of KMail; identities, server name and so
> on.


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