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On Wednesday 24 Aug 2011 23:30:16 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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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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They say that kmail-2 has a completely different storage architecture ... |
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Have you looked in the mysql tables to see what is hanging in there? |
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(clutching at straws) |
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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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My previous response was about Kmail-1. Kmail-2 should *not* be used |
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according to one developer's blog (4 months old): |
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https://thomasmcguire.wordpress.com/category/kmail/ |
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I've seen quite a lot of complains about slowness and missing local folders |
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like ... Inbox! when I googled for it. |
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Good luck in getting your messages back. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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