LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] KMail: Mail folder location and correct storage space calculation?

Dear all,

my quick research on LQ and with my favourite internet search engines hasn't given useful results, but if I am missing something, please just give me a pointer into the right direction. During the migration to Slackware 13 and KDE 4.2.4 I observed something I don't understand regarding KMail.

My understanding is, that KMail stores email messages by default in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail. Problem is that storage space is calculated differently depending on the PWD and command I use.

Using du in kmail I get:

Code:

user@linux:~/.kde/share/apps/kmail$ du -s -m *

1      autosave

1      autosave.index.ids

1      dimap

1      imap

1      lock

2102    mail

1      search

1      unfiltered.1079850475

[...]

Now, when I change into mail in order to check the size of the sub-folders and files there, I get only small numbers, that never result in the 2102 MB computed by su:

Code:

user@linux:~/.kde/share/apps/kmail$ cd mail

user@linux:~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail$ du -s -m *

1      Aktuell

1      Archiv

1      SP0axA2dAcU

1      SP0axa00429

1      SP0axeyQHCn

1      drafts

95      inbox

1      outbox

75      sent-mail

1      templates

1      trash

I'd be grateful, if anyone could give me a short explanation, what's going on here, and if this behaviour is correct or indicating that something's fundamentally wrong with my system.

If the figures of both commands are correct: Where are the missing 1800 MB, then, not seen by the second du?

Thanks in advance!

gargamel