Hi Guys,

I'm having a bit of an issue with Kontact at present. The timing suggests it may be connected with the latest exim4 update. Apologies in advance for the length.

First thing I noticed was the To-Dos and Calendar were not displaying. I could get the Calendar to display by changing the folder settings (ie. path to calendar files), then changing them back. This was not persistent and had to be repeated when Kontact was restarted.

I did the same thing in the Akonadai settings, logged out and logged back in (force Akonadia apps to restart) and the calender info is present. Pls note I'm pretty sure I put everything in Akonadai back the way it was - but am not completely certain. At this point I had NOT made any changes related to KMail or the Local Folders service.

After the logout/in Kontact/Kmail reported that the folders I had deleted were associated with my mail account (I do not remember the exact wording - apologies for that) and Kontact shows no emails in Local Folders (Inbox, Sent-mail etc).
Pls note I had not deleted any files or directories.

E-mail messages still appear to be in ~/.local/share/local-mail.
All the settings I've found to date (Kontact > KMail settings dialogs and Akonadai dialogs from System Settings) point to ~/.local/share/local-mail

A new directory ~/.local/share/.local-mail.directory has appeared with a Date stamp consistent with the start of this issue. It has the same subdirectory structure as ~/.local/share/local-mail but all the subdirectories are empty. I have tried deleting these directories but they get recreated at the next restart of Kontact or KMail.

I have tried the solutions from
https://userbase.kde.org/KMail/FAQs_Hin ... r_and_over
(not the same problem, but...)
and from progdan
viewtopic.php?f=215&t=120777#p308518
which took a couple of Kontact restarts to sort itself out. Again, no joy wrt Local Folders.

So how to fix this?
Ideally I'd like to get Kontact/KMail to use ~/.local/share/local-mail (as it used to until recently).
I'm not completely against copying the contents of ~/.local/share/local-mail to the new (and somewhat mysterious) ~/.local/share/.local-mail.directory but I am concerned that Akonadai might lose the plot somehow.

Any and all advice, suggestions, assistance gratefully accepted with one exception (see below).

I'm using Kontact 4.14.1 and KMail 4.14.1 on Debian 8.6 (Jessie - stable). Pls don't ask me to upgrade Kontact - that would kinda defeat the purpose of using a stable distro- and all was fine until a fewq days ago.

Email account is POP3 in case that's relevant.

Thanks for reading,
DMcP

Unfortunately PIM 4.x has been unmaintained for more than a year, so it's hard to figure out what happened here. Were there no other upgrades / changes save for exim?

Apols for the tardy response.

I don't remember any other upgrades. Having writ that, it's hard to say how exim4 would be the cause.

Anyhow, after a week with no response here or over at Debian I bit the bullet and moved the message files to the local mail directory. This has cured the symptoms (ie. Kmail can now see the messages), but I'm still puzzles as to the cause. I wouldn't waste any more time/effort on this - I've decided to rebuild my Linux installation from the ground up. (Maybe I'll switch to Deb Stretch while I'm at it or try something else altogether).

Thanks very much for thinking about this and taking the trouble to post a follow-up.

Cheers.