Bug 20602

Summary:	Kmail 5.4.3 ignores maildir DB in ~/mail; presents empty minimal default folder structure
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Maurice Batey <maurice77>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	KDE maintainers <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	6RC
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	kmail-16.12.3-1.mga6.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Maurice Batey 2017-03-30 17:58:28 CEST

Description of problem:

 When started in Plasma Mageia-6-rc, kmail appears to ignore the 'maildir' DB in ~/mail, instead showing an empty default minimal local-folder structure.
  N.B. Problem not there with Mageia-6-sta2...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

 5.4.3

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Start kmail

2. Note empty folder structure on left. (Input, Sent etc)

3.  [Note that in Settings/Accounts/Local folders, 'Modify' shows that
   '/home/user/mail' is set as 'folder containing the maildir info' and "The selected path is a valid Maildir."

4. 'Update folder' has no effect.

Maurice Batey 2017-03-30 18:05:26 CEST

Keywords: (none) => 6RC

Marja Van Waes 2017-03-30 20:35:45 CEST

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => kde

Comment 1 Maurice Batey 2017-04-08 17:18:16 CEST

N.B. Have just been able to (Plasma) install the same Mageia-6-rc .iso on UEFI/GPT laptop (using DVD).

The 5.4.3 Kmail in that install picks up the ~/mail directory 1st time...

So presumably on the desktop install there is something different in the Kmail settings that is causing Kmail to ignore ~/mail. 
  Is there a list somewhere of all the files that are involved with Kmail that could cause such a problem?

Note (as stated earlier) that in Kmail's Settings/Accounts/Local folders, 'Modify' shows that:
   '~/mail' is set as 'folder containing the maildir info' and "The selected path is a valid Maildir."

(POP not IMAP)

Comment 2 Maurice Batey 2017-04-10 15:00:43 CEST

Assuming something in $HOME had got scrambled, I cloned ~/kde, ~/.config and ~/.local (from the Mageia-6-rc running happily on the laptop with Kmail using ~/mail) onto the desktop whose Mageia-6-rc kmail wasignored ~/mail.

But it still ignored ~/mail.

So a replaced ~/mail with a copy of the latest 'production' from Mageia-5 - and the desktop's Mageia-6-rc kmail DID then use ~/mail.

So this bug can be closed, but I can throw no more light on what caused the problem other than 'something got screwed up in $HOME'...

[CLOSED]

Comment 3 Rémi Verschelde 2017-04-10 15:07:34 CEST

To close a bug, please change the "Status" to "RESOLVED > FIXED" :)

Comment 4 Maurice Batey 2017-04-10 15:13:37 CEST

Done!

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED