Bug 406230

Summary: Subfolders of "local folders" (inbox, outbox, drafts, templates) are no longer localized
Product: [Applications] kmail2 Reporter: Gerhard <gstengel>
Component: foldersAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.10.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Gerhard 2019-04-04 19:45:12 UTC 
After restarting kmail and akonadi from scratch (after deleting all akonadi data and kmail settings), the subfolders of "Local folders" are no longer translated.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
remove .config/akonadi/*
remove .local/share/akonadi/*
remove kmail settings

Alternatively, you can create a new user and start kmail.

OBSERVED RESULT
Even though using German locale, the subfolders of "local folders" have English names.

EXPECTED RESULT
The names should be localized. That has been the case until recently.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: openSuse Tumbleweed
KDE Plasma Version: 5.15.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.56.0
Qt Version: 5.12.2
Comment 1 Gerhard 2019-04-05 14:11:49 UTC 
After some more investigation, I think I came a bit closer to the actual root cause.
After looking into the akonadi_db with akonadiconsole, in particular on collectionitemtable, I found that each mail folder has a property called ENTITYDISPLAY which should contain its localized name, t.ex. ENTITYDISPLAY ("Posteingang" "mail-folder-inbox" "" ()) for the inbox in German.
However, in my case the property was missing for the inbox folder and for the other local folders it contained the English names only.

Seems to be an initialisation problem of akonadi. This would also explain why you never see the problem with existing akonadi databases as the property was correctly created in the past.