From kdepim-users Thu Aug 19 12:25:17 2021 From: David Jarvie Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 12:25:17 +0000 To: kdepim-users Subject: Re: Akonadi server won't start Message-Id: <7469601.PSlvWBTUDY () stewjar> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kdepim-users&m=162937593431169 On Thursday, 19 August 2021 12:21:03 BST Ingo Kl=F6cker wrote: > On Donnerstag, 19. August 2021 01:35:05 CEST David Jarvie wrote: > > On Tuesday, 17 August 2021 20:26:00 BST Ingo Kl=F6cker wrote: > > > WARNING: Switching the database will make Akonadi forget more or less > > > everything. Make a backup before proceeding. If you have lots of filt= ers > > > configured, then export them before the switch. If you have mail stor= ed > > > in > > > local folders, i.e. if you are not using IMAP exclusively, then you > > > might > > > also want to export those folders. Akonadi may not have written all > > > local > > > mail to local files so that some of those mails may only be stored in > > > the > > > database. > >=20 > > I've already encountered the issue which you describe, i.e. that after > > moving mails from IMAP into local folders, no file is created in the > > directory for that folder. I've tried copying instead of moving, but th= at > > doesn't work either (unlike in older KDE PIM software). >=20 > Did you try copying single emails? This has always worked for me. IIRC, t= hen > moving individual emails and copying multiple emails also worked. Only > moving multiple emails with a single operation didn't result in files > written to disk in some older version of KMail. Dan fixed this problem > quite some time ago. All of my observations apply to maildir folders in my > Local Folders. >=20 > Which version are you using? I copied just a single email. I didn't try copying multiple ones. However, = I=20 just tried again today and moved first one email, and then two emails; both= =20 worked successfully (i.e. the files were saved in the directory). I'll have= to=20 keep an eye on this. I'm using kmail 5.15.3 (KDE 20.08.3) from the new Debian stable release. =2D-=20 David Jarvie. KDE developer, KAlarm author.