Problem with kmail2 and akonadi

From	Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Problem with kmail2 and akonadi
Date	2020-06-22 18:30 +0200
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Hi folks,

I am fighting with some issues with kmail and akonadi, maybe someone knows the trick.

The problem: I am using kmail now for many years. As kmail needs a message folder with
inbox, outbox, trash, drafts and sent-mail folders within, these are in my "KMail-Folder",
which is a mixedmaildir folder pointing to the directory where my mails reside. This is
~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/.

But sadly I had an akonadi crash, which I had to fix. Now the state is this, that I got my
KMail-Folder back (with inbox, outbox, trash and so on), but it appeared another folder
named "Local Folder", which also got trash, inbox, outbox, sent-mail and so on within.

I know, these are automatically created by kmail, and it appears I cannot delete these. As
I could point most settings to the folders below my old "Kmail-Folders", I could not get
kmail remove the outbox-folder, trash and drafts folder away from "Local folders".

I tried this from the docs:

https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/pim/kmail2/local-folders-is-added-over-and-over.html[1]

but it did not help. Also all the hints in the forums did not help, sorry.

I also tried to delete ~/.local/share/akonadi and ~/.config/akonadi, and start from the
bginning, but this won't let get me access to my mails again. Luckily I did not delete the
above directories, just moved them away, so I could return back.

What isa also not quite clear for me: What is the difference between Kmail-Folders and
Local-Folders? I tried to point Local-Folders to ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/, hoped, that
this would read and indicate my mails again. No success!

The documentation related to akonadi is not so well, IMO, so I have much difficulties to
understand, how things work. If there would be a way, to run kmail without akonadi (but
Isuppose, this is not possible), I would appreciate it. Generally I was running into slight
problems with akonadi from time to time, but this could always be solved.

However, this one is big, and I would be appreciated, if someone could enlighten me, how
to fix this problems.

Thank you very much for any help.

Best regards

Hans

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[1] https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/pim/kmail2/local-folders-is-added-over-and-over.html

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