Dear community!

I have a problem with my backup
because I don't used 'export email data'

I made only an backup of my home directory
and also every day an backup from mysql for akonadi.

Now I want to implement this backup
I have start akonadictl and also KMail is running
but I don't see any old emails!

what shall I do?
THX for helping
Alex

Are you using IMAP, local folders, or POP3?

Hi einar,
thx for answering.

I think it must be POP3, because I don't know what I can do with an local Order
and by IMAP there should be the mails on the server.

thx for helping
Alex

POP3 mails should land in ~/.local/share/local-mail and/or ~/.local/share/.local-mail.directory. Can you check if they are there?

the folder .local-mails.directory inside ~/local/share/ does not exist.
inside local-mails, there are some mails ...

I import this folder new from my backup
stop akonadi with akonadictl stop
import again the mysql-dump from last backup
start akonadi with akonadictl start

and yes -> it looks good
all created subfolder from my backup, I think, will be there
but when I want to see any email with double-click
there comes an popup with 'waiting while transform' (or like this -> I have an german version)

in akonadictl I see

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...
request for item 37262 "1482335748.R788.alko-desktop:2,S" failed: "Unable to retrieve item from resource: Payload size mismatch"
ItemRetrieverException :  Unable to retrieve item from resource: Payload size mismatch
found 1 item parts to expire in collection "max-project"
found 2 item parts to expire in collection "Administration"
found 2 item parts to expire in collection "Versendete Nachrichten"
posting retrieval request for item 37262  there are  1  queues and  0  items in mine
request for item 37262 still pending - waiting
processing retrieval request for item 37262  parts: ("HEAD", "RFC822")  of resource: "akonadi_maildir_resource_0"
"/home/kollia/.local/share/akonadi/file_db_data/0\u0000/_r0" "_r0"
Failed to open destination payload file "Ist ein Verzeichnis"
"Payload size mismatch" , client advertised 76228 bytes, but the file is 4096 bytes!
continuing
...


ever and ever ...

what can I do now?

update: 23. July 2017
I imported now the hole akonadi folder from .local/share/
stop and start akonadictl again
yes, maybe some more mails now exist,
but the most importend new mails does not.

Can you check if they are in ~/.local/share/.local-mail.directory?

no sorry,
I have only local-mail inside /share/
(there is only one hidden file .directory but no folder)

interesting is also
there all subdirectories on Harddisk local-mail
from local folder in KMail
but this subdirectories have also subdirs
and they are not on Harddisk

in KMail they are
and inside also some mails, but not all

now I have looked for access on hard disk with the tool "iwatch"
and yes,
from an email, from which I can see the heading but can not open the content, is correct with content available on the hard disk.

but akonadictl says:

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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
request for item 2531 "1337714819.R332.alko-desktop:2,S" failed: "Unable to retrieve item from resource: Payload size mismatch"
ItemRetrieverException :  Unable to retrieve item from resource: Payload size mismatch
posting retrieval request for item 2531  there are  1  queues and  0  items in mine
request for item 2531 still pending - waiting
processing retrieval request for item 2531  parts: ("HEAD", "RFC822")  of resource: "akonadi_maildir_resource_0"
"/home/kollia/.local/share/akonadi/file_db_data/0\u0000/_r0" "_r0"
Failed to open destination payload file "Ist ein Verzeichnis"
"Payload size mismatch" , client advertised 6847 bytes, but the file is 4096 bytes!
continuing
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what can I do now
to make the file available for KMail?