I always kept my (pop3) mail in ~/Mail, but with my traumatic migration process, I am not sure where kmail/akonadi looks for my mail anymore.

I have a "local folders" resource, with the path set to "~/.local/share/local-mail", but the directory structure there looks empty:

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[anders@katja ~]$ find  .local/share/local-mail
.local/share/local-mail
.local/share/local-mail/cur
.local/share/local-mail/new
.local/share/local-mail/tmp
[anders@katja ~]$

So where does my mail go? It would feel safe to know, so that I can make backups and avoid deleting it!


Check ~/Mail, it should still be there. Akonadi stores metadata in the database - think of it as an extended index - and your mail should not have moved at all.

annew wrote:Check ~/Mail, it should still be there. Akonadi stores metadata in the database - think of it as an extended index - and your mail should not have moved at all.

That would be wonderful. Recent mail (from today) does not appear to be in there, though. I can't find that anywhere :$

my mails are in ~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail

sredna wrote:

annew wrote:Check ~/Mail, it should still be there. Akonadi stores metadata in the database - think of it as an extended index - and your mail should not have moved at all.

That would be wonderful. Recent mail (from today) does not appear to be in there, though. I can't find that anywhere :$

If you only see "Local Folders" in KMail your mails are under $HOME/.local/share/.local-mail.directory

You can create an accessor for your old KMail mail manually by adding a "KMail Folders" account/backend handler and pointing it to $HOME/Mail

Cheers,
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Try looking for your local folders/emails in;

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~/.local/share/.local-mail.directory

Good Luck..

jasn wrote:Try looking for your local folders/emails in;

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~/.local/share/.local-mail.directory

Good Luck..

Why is it here? The configuration specifies .local-mail, how does it end up in .local-mail.directory?

That is how maildir works.
Each folder has three subfolders for its own mail, e.g. local-mail/cur, local-mail/new, local-mail/tmp

It's subfolders are then stored in a directory with the same name but prefixed by period and sufficexed by .directory, in the case of "local-mail" that makes ".local-mail.directory"

sredna wrote:So where does my mail go? It would feel safe to know, so that I can make backups and avoid deleting it!
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Look at my thread (with solution):
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=97996
maybe it may be useful for you. Note my mails ware original in ~/Mail it is important not to use the same folder to copy them back!