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... or what the unbelievable lack of maturity of KDEPIM devs has landed us in: |
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I have upgraded KDE on my old laptop to see what gives. Surprisingly, it was |
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not *too* bad; i.e. my old emails were not corrupted, deleted or otherwise |
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affected. |
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However, the following are things that didn't really work as a rational human |
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being would expect with a PIM setup, let alone anyone who's running this in a |
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production environment with loads of users! |
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The auto-migration did not work. It only worked partially for some mail |
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account settings, but did not leave behind a workable system, with half the |
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account settings missing. |
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The kmail-migrator --interactive also did not work. |
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I had to change the location pointing to the local mail folders - I keep mine |
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under ~/Mail. Then after pressing F5 on each folder akonadi scanned the |
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respective mail directory and my stored messages showed up! :-) |
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Partial success here, however, because the Sent mail subfolders were not |
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imported, linked to or showed up. I keep my sent mail in separate subfolders |
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according to the account that I sent messages from and they are stored there |
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using kmails filters. |
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Trying to manually import ~/Mail/.sent-mail.directory/Sent-Gmail, etc. did not |
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work no matter how many times I tried. |
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Eventually I set up a new local resource account (Settings/Accounts/Add) and |
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pointed this to .sent-mail.directory. It imported everything, but as a new |
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top-level folder. :-( |
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I tried a number of times to update these, but sqlite3 just hangs for some |
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reason and neither completes the update, not does it complain (when launching |
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kmail from a terminal). I don't know if mysql would be more successful here. |
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The migration of the email account Settings was even less successful. The |
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settings for Sending transferred across, but the account settings for |
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Receiving did not survive. Well, let me be more precise here. They did |
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survive, as they were all still in the kmailrc file. I checked this against a |
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back up. No matter, they didn't show up under accounts. |
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I resorted to recreating these from scratch using the kmail GUI and other than |
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some changes on the GUI fields, the pop3 email accounts worked fine. |
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The IMAP4 accounts were less of a success however. I recreated them from |
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scratch, but no messages showed up under Inbox. Sent and Trash work fine. |
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Having ran out of time I was wondering if you came across such breakages and |
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if so how did you fix them. |
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For now I have masked KDEPIM 4.7 on all of my remaining boxen. This is too |
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messy to have to fix more than once, if I can fix it at all that is! |
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The only thing that's keeping me from mutt is the zillion shortcut commands |
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that I need to learn ... old dog/new tricks and all that. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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