How do I BOMB everything about kmail to start completely fresh?

[TheBigAmbulance]

I don't mean going into settings, or anything like that. I mean go into ~/.kde/things and bomb everything about kmail so I can start just like a fresh install?

[claydoh]

http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=96124
this article specifies ~/.kde4 as some distros use that as the kde config directory. We use ~/.kde

look in ~/.local/share
and ~/.config for akonadi bits to nuke
then you may want to remove any kmail/akonadi related configs in ~/.kde/share/config
the actual mail itself is stored in ~/.local/share/local-mail/

I also suggest stopping akonadi before doing any deletions.

[SteveRiley]

This should do it:

rm -rfv ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail2/
rm -rfv ~/.kde/share/config/kmail*
rm -rfv ~/.local/share/akonadi/
rm -rfv ~/.config/akonadi/
rm -rfv ~/.kde/share/config/akonadi*

Or as one line:

rm -rfv ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail2/ ~/.kde/share/config/kmail* ~/.local/share/akonadi/ ~/.config/akonadi/ ~/.kde/share/config/akonadi*

Not tested, so I can't predict the results...

[woodsmoke]

Hi, I hesitated before writing, because I wanted experts to comment first, and they have done so.

But, I would offer this caveat.

I tried, a couple of years ago, just the same thing using Synaptic and found that the operation was going to yank other things out like pulling a tooth out by the roots and so thought better of it.

Point being to peruse VERY carefully what is going to be removed in addition to Kmail, although it seems that SR's suggestion would remove only Kmail and nothing else.

woodsmoke

[SteveRiley]

the actual mail itself is stored in ~/.local/share/local-mail/

I think local-mail might be only for local maildir-type resources. My KMail is set up with two IMAP resources, and the actual email files appear in ~/.local/share/akonadi/file_db_data.