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Now I can't even reply to the several excellent answers already |
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received - I just watched kmail2 delete my entire gentoo-user folder. |
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A thorough search of my home dir fails to reveal where mails are |
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hiding. I created a new Maildir (the real one, not that stupid mixed |
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KDE thing) in .kde4/share/apps/kmail/maildir and copied a bunch of |
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stuff there. It got moved per the kmail2 interface - the originals and |
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folders were no longer in the original place, they could be viewed in |
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the new maildir resource. |
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But they could not be found on disk. And then, as I watched, the |
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entire folder tree was removed from the sidebar one folder at a time |
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leaving only the top-most folder. There is nothing on disk. |
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It gets worse. I have a folder for work stuff, counting the total |
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column for each folder shows there are 6562 mails. find and wc on disk |
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returns 4049. So there are 2513 files not on disk that should be. |
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I have no idea where they could be. |
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They are not in .local/share/.local-mail.directory/ |
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They are not in .kde4/share/apps/kmail/ |
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I do not find cache copies in /tmp or /var/tmp |
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I conclude that there must be copies in the mysql that akonadi uses (I |
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thought that was only for email metadata....) |
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But they have to be somewhere as kmail2 is showing them. |
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I also discovered that kmail2 doesn't do changing of IMAP folders at |
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all, it seems to be strictly read-only. I can create folders in that |
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area to my heary's content, nothing shows on disk. Kmail2 doesn't seem |
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to support server-side at all. I can create folders in claws easily |
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enough and they show up, but not the other way round. It doesn't seem |
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to be a delayed update either - 12 hours later is a bit too long for |
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that. |
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Will I log a KDE bug against this? I doubt it. I want nothing more to |
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do with kdepim and dealing with those devs is pain I do not want. I'm |
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subscribed to the kdepim user list and the devs often chip in there. |
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Believe me, the ones answering there are quite confused in general and |
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several sandwiches short of a full picnic. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |