Bug 240056

Summary:	kmail downloads emails again after moving the mail folder with Disconnected IMAP.
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Chirag Anand <anand.chirag>
Component:	disconnected IMAP	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	major	CC:	j_kolberg11
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Chirag Anand 2010-05-30 10:20:30 UTC

Version:           1.12.2 (using KDE 4.3.5) 
OS:                Linux

I followed the instructions from http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdepim/kmail/faq.html#id2568470 to move the mail folder location but Kmail started to download all the email messages again from the start in the ~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail directory.


Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Exit KMail 
2. make a backup of ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc
3. then open it with an editor and edit "folders=$HOME/.mail" in the “[General]” section. 
4. mv ~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/* ~/.mail/


Actual Results:  
Open KMail, it will start downloading all the messages again.


I was not using any local/server-side subscriptions, so that couldn't have caused this.

Comment 1 Jonathan Kolberg 2011-05-08 11:38:09 UTC

This isn’t possible anymore since in KDEPIM 4.6 the data is stored in akonadi and asaik it’s impossible to configure it’s data location.

Comment 2 Laurent Montel 2015-04-12 09:59:55 UTC

Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback.