Kmail badly broken

[Volker Wysk]

Hi!

I'm getting a bad error from KMail:

"Im E-Mail-Programm ist ein schwerwiegender Fehler aufgetreten. Das Programm
wird beendet. Die Fehlermeldung lautet: Could not create collection trash,
resourceId: 2"

(Translation: "In the email program, a grave error occured. The program is now
being terminated. The error message is: Could not create collection trash,
resourceId: 2"

Before that, I've done something with trash folders (local one and in my local
Dovecot IMAP server).

The KMail version is 5.7.3.

Any ideas?

If I was to set up and configure Kmail again, which files in ~/.config,
~/.local or ~/.kde (or others) should I delete?

Bye
Volker

[E. Hakan Duran]

Hi Volker,

Post by Volker Wysk
...
If I was to set up and configure Kmail again, which files in ~/.config,
~/.local or ~/.kde (or others) should I delete?
...

Please find below the text I cut from a previous email from Dan, which details how to backup and restore Kmail/Akonadi. I hope it helps answering your question.

Thanks,

Hakan

---------------------
the following should be a complete set of things to archive for Akonadi +
KMail.

~/.local/share/akonadi/
Akonadi DB + data: you can omit search_db (Akonadi Search Index, see below),
since it will be reindexed. You could omit file_db_data too, but then you will
suffer the horrible penalty of Akonadi redownloading all the data (especially
if you use offline IMAP) and the search won't work properly until all is
downloaded (if you did not backup search_db too).

~/.local/share/baloo/{calendar,contact,collections,email,emailContacts,notes}/
Akonadi Search Index: historically it is in ~/.local/share/baloo, but if you
wiped and recrated your index recently, then ~/.local/share/baloo will be
empty and the indexes will be stored in ~/.local/share/akonadi/search_db (as
mentioned above)

~/.local/share/kmail2/
KMail2 data

~/.local/share/messageviewer/
Custom header themes, if you had any

~/.config/akonadi/
Akonadi agent configuration. You want that.

~/.config/akonadi_*rc
Agents' own configuration. You want that too.

~/.config/baloorc
For historical reasons baloorc contains configuration of the Akonadi Search
Index. Current git master has migrated the configuration to
~/.config/akonadi_indexing_agentrc.

~/.config/emailidentities
KMail email identities

~/.config/foldermailarchive
If you use Archiving

~/.config/kmail*rc
KMail configuration

~/.config/mailtransport
Sending account configuration (SMTP)

~/.config/specialmailcollectionsrc
Magic.

~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/
Historically, contains local contacts.

~/.local/share/contacts
New location for local contacts.

~/.kde/share/apps/korganizer/
Histroically, contains local calendars

~/.local/share/local-mail (sometimes also ~/.local/share/.local-mail)
Content of "Local Folders"



Dan

[Volker Wysk]

Post by E. Hakan Duran
Hi Volker,

Post by Volker Wysk
...
If I was to set up and configure Kmail again, which files in ~/.config,
~/.local or ~/.kde (or others) should I delete?
...

Please find below the text I cut from a previous email from Dan,
which details how to backup and restore Kmail/Akonadi. I hope it
helps answering your question.

Thank you very much!

I've restored the relevant bits from a backup, according to the list
you posted. Now it works again (or so it seems).

Bye,
Volker

[E. Hakan Duran]

Post by Volker Wysk
...
I've restored the relevant bits from a backup, according to the list
you posted. Now it works again (or so it seems).
...

Good to hear it worked Volker. I hope it stays that way for a very long time.

Hakan