Hi
I am another victim of the Akonadi nightmare, to the extent that I
decided to go back to kmail 4.14.
Could anybody please tell me where is the mail folder stored and how do I
set it to a visible folder? eg /home/myname/Mail ?
Many thanks and Happy New Year.
In the KDE4 Plasma world, and the KDE Plasma 5 world, KMail (and the rest of Kontact) stores user files under ‘~/.local/share/’ – the Akonadi database is in the ‘~/.local/share/akonadi’ directory and the KMail directories are: ‘~/.local/share/local-mail/’ and ‘~/.local/share/.local-mail.directory/’.
[HR][/HR]But, and this a very big BUT: it is possible that, simply dropping your old mail files into the directories below ‘~/.local/share/.local-mail.directory/’ will function as expected but, it may well be that, it’ll possibly be the cause of untold woes and misery . . .
[HR][/HR]My recommendation is:
<https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/pim/kmail/backups.html>
<https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/pim/kmail/import-restore.html>
On Mon, 09 Jan 2017 09:16:01 +0000, dcurtisfra wrote:
> In the KDE4 Plasma world, and the KDE Plasma 5 world, KMail (and the
> rest of Kontact) stores user files under ‘~/.local/share/’ – the
> Akonadi database is in the ‘~/.local/share/akonadi’ directory and the
> KMail directories are: ‘~/.local/share/local-mail/’ and
> ‘~/.local/share/.local-mail.directory/’.
Thank you very much for the reply.
I spent 5hs trying to sort that akonadi mess.
Using akonadiconsole would not recognise a visible location for “local
folders”, then if in Kmail I created a new mail folder under “local
folders”, the folder would not show up in ~/.local/share/local-mail. A
mystery I cannot resolve (i guess that the messages were stored in some
database).
I went for kmail 4.14 which seemed to show all folders OK, but then I
could not send messages (great!, a dbus error of some kind which I could
not understand what it was due to) and could not find a way of changing
the location of the local-mail folder.
In a last attempt, I deleted all old akonadi traces and folders I could
find, and reinstalled kdepim 5… and this time it started working again,
and the mail folders were read again (I had them backed up).
I am not looking forward to have to do all this again. 
My original question was more about how to move the ~/.local/share/local-
mail to somewhere like ~/Mail but in the end it is perhaps better leave
it where it is supposed to be and hope that akonadi behaves or (even
better) is removed for good.
As always thanks for the help and happy new year.