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Mick wrote: |
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> On Saturday 11 Feb 2012 07:47:41 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>> Am Donnerstag, 9. Februar 2012, 18:33:12 schrieb Daniel D Jones: |
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>> > I was one of those bitten by the upgrade to KMail back in October. |
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>> > After spending nearly two days without access to email while trying to |
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>> > get the upgrade and migration to work, I gave up and pinned KMail to |
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>> > version 4.4.11.1. |
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>> > With the recent upgrade to KDE, I'm curious if anyone knows whether the |
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>> > bugs have been worked out and the KMail upgrade will go smoother now? |
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>> I switched a long time ago, so I can't say anything about 'smoother' but |
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>> it does work, as long as you remove all mail ressources and add them back |
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>> one after another. |
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> Unfortunately, it does not work here on my test x86 stable box. I have |
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> removed and added each resource more than a dozen times. POP3 seems to |
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> broadly work (but it creates duplicate messages which once deleted are |
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> recreated) and IMAP4 does not show any messages in the Inbox. The |
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> kaddressbook does not show the addresses. |
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> I've tried deleting akonadi databases, adding the resources or importing |
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> them and starting again many, many times to come to the conclusion that in |
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> my set |
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> up it just won't work. I hope that code progress eventually restores |
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> functionality which I consider absolutely basic - i.e. to be able to read |
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> my messages and use my addresses. |
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I successfully imported two installations with IMAP accounts. On both system |
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the automated migration failed. |
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At one installation IMAP server was Courier and the mails were kept all on |
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the server, here I had to delete and recreate the accounts. |
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The other installation used IMAP to access MS Exchange server and my account |
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has typically no mail on the server, but all locally. After recreating my |
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account, none of my local mail was available anymore. However I simply had |
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to move (well, with backup) the contents of the old maildir folders to the |
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new one and all I had to do in KMail was to refresh the folders manually. |
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That was really fast - especially compared to that lengthly and unsuccessful |
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migration attempt. |
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Local addresses resources had to be recreated, an LDAP resource worked after |
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migration. |
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Nevertheless, it often feels like a 1.0 version, the old 4.4.x line had less |
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bugs. |
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> Having wasted far too much time for no positive result I'm now in hope |
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> that trinity desktop will come up with a solution that I was sorry to see |
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> left behind - KDE 3.5. |
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Yes, some apps in KDE4 are still not at the same level, however, a lot are |
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better. Unfortunately it seems those not-yet-at-same level are the more |
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essential ones. |
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Cheers, |
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Jörg |
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