[gentoo-user] Kmail does not show all imap folders

[gentoo-user] Kmail does not show all imap folders

[Alexander Puchmayr]

Hi there,

I'm using dovecot as imap server, some sieve scripts sorting incoming mails 
into a folder structure and kmail on multiple different machines as client. The 
folder structure on the server looks fine, I can access the folders via command 
line and I don't see anything obviously wrong.

Some of those target folders are not shown on all machines, they are simply 
ignored; Unfortunately these folders contain important mails which I need to 
react to (which is bad if I do not see them on my main machine, only in some 
test VM). 

I checked folder subscriptions in kmail, but I do not see the missing folders 
there either. Also akonadi-console does not show them. I also tried 
curl imaps://<my-server>/
Showing all of the missing folders, so I think its an akonadi/kmail problem 
and not an imap problem. 

Any ideas? 

BR
	Alex 

Kde-apps/kmail-23.08.3
Kde-frameworks/kjobwidgets-5.112.0
kde-apps/akonadi-23.08.3-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail does not show all imap folders

[Wols Lists]

On 22/01/2024 07:04, Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
> I checked folder subscriptions in kmail, but I do not see the missing folders
> there either. Also akonadi-console does not show them. I also tried
> curl imaps://<my-server>/
> Showing all of the missing folders, so I think its an akonadi/kmail problem
> and not an imap problem.
> 
> Any ideas?

I occasionally get this problem in Thunderbird, and one of the options 
in folder properties is "delete the index". If you've got that option 
for the parent folder, do it, and then kmail should rebuild from scratch 
and find the folders.

Cheers,
Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail does not show all imap folders

[Michael]

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On Monday, 22 January 2024 08:56:00 GMT Wols Lists wrote:
> On 22/01/2024 07:04, Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
> > I checked folder subscriptions in kmail, but I do not see the missing
> > folders there either. Also akonadi-console does not show them. I also
> > tried curl imaps://<my-server>/
> > Showing all of the missing folders, so I think its an akonadi/kmail
> > problem
> > and not an imap problem.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> I occasionally get this problem in Thunderbird, and one of the options
> in folder properties is "delete the index". If you've got that option
> for the parent folder, do it, and then kmail should rebuild from scratch
> and find the folders.
> 
> Cheers,
> Wol

Hmm ... I never received the OP message, only Wol's reply made it through. :-/

In Kmail make sure you have subscribed on the server folders you want Kmail to 
show.  Right-click on the top folder and select 'Serverside Subscription' to 
show the tree of folders on the server.

To re-index the messages in Akonadi you can right-click on the top folder, 
e.g. Inbox, then select 'Folder Properties', 'Maintenance' tab and click the 
button "Reindex Folder".

Also, on the Akonadi Console you can restart the 'Akonadi Indexing Agent'.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail does not show all imap folders

[Alexander Puchmayr]

On Montag, 22. Jänner 2024, 10:48:02 CET Michael wrote:
> In Kmail make sure you have subscribed on the server folders you want Kmail
> to show.  Right-click on the top folder and select 'Serverside
> Subscription' to show the tree of folders on the server.

Indeed, that was missing. I only looked at "local subscriptions", not server 
side subscriptions. Now folders are shown :-)

Thanks a lot
	Alex