KMail Account Data - Where ?

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#1

Hi,

**Where apart from ~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail does kmail keep account data, such as login data/names of pop/smtp servers?
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I wanted to install an entirely clean version of kmail, so I uninstalled/re-installed kmail via YAST. I manually deleted ~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail. After installing kmail I found that the account data of my Yahoo account were still listed in the kmail configuration panel.

Shall I delete the Yahoo account within kmail prior to uninstalling the kmail package?

Cheers and best regards.

H.

P.S. Lenovo TP T61, openSUSE 11.3, KDE4

#2

As of KDE 4.4 and later the account data (if I am not entirely mislead by recent development) are handled by the Akonadi framework. Backup of this framework was effectively a critizied issue and an efficient backup and administration has yet AFAIK not been implemented.
Maybe somebody more into the KDE4 development can give better inside on how to backup / handle the Akonadi based data or if there have been changes for what concerns these problems.

#3

Under home/.kde4/config

There are three files. From memory something like:-

email identies

kmailric

mail transporter

The spellings aren’t 100% but should point you in the right direction.

#4

Hi and thanks a lot,

Yes, as far as I have read up now, too, Akonadi caches Kontact data in some internal MySQL-server. Any idea how I can find the tables used for that purpose?

Best regards.

H.

#5

Yes, as far as I have read up now, too, Akonadi caches Kontact data in some internal MySQL-server. Any idea how I can find the tables used for that purpose?

I don’t know where it stores the tables, but in any case make sure that you have installed the latest KDE updates (there are plenty of them). They fix a critical bug with Akonadi: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=571546