Bug 379697

Summary:	IMAP folders mapping for sent mail, drafts and templates gets randomized when akonadi database needs to be deleted
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Thomas Dreibholz <dreibh>
Component:	folders	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	forestbeasts
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.5.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Thomas Dreibholz 2017-05-10 13:48:25 UTC

IMAP folders mapping for sent mail, drafts and templates gets randomized when akonadi database needs to be deleted. That is, e.g. the mappings
Sent -> GMail/[Google Mail]/Sent
Drafts -> GMail/[Google Mail]/Sent
Templates -> ...
will map to random folders (even of other IMAP accounts, also e.g. trash folders!) after
rm -rf .local/share/akonadi
(+ restart of akonadi and kmail).

Desired behaviour:
If Kmail's mapping is not working any more, it should at least ask the user! In no case should Kmail map to arbitrary folders automatically.

Comment 1 Justin Zobel 2022-11-06 09:24:56 UTC

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Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2022-11-21 05:13:02 UTC

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Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2022-12-06 05:19:41 UTC

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
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Comment 4 forestbeasts 2024-08-12 04:16:22 UTC

I can confirm this still happens on KDE Neon user edition (akonadi 6.1.2 (24.05.2)).

It's a design flaw – in the config files for the mail accounts (~/..config/akonadi_imap_resource*rc) it stores these folders as raw database ID numbers, which are meaningless or even point to something random after a database wipe!

So we'll need to either detect that, or more preferably, maybe even fix it by referring to mailboxes by name somehow.

-- Frost