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Hello lists, |
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(I've sent this to both gentoo-user and kdepim-users as being relevant in |
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both lists - I'm using kde-apps/kmail-16.12.0-r1 on Gentoo.) |
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Well, I think I can finally emerge from a long battle to get KMail working. |
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It's been uphill all the way - except for the frequent slips backwards to |
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start abain. (I still don't have spell checking, as you see.) |
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The main problem has been to recover archived e-mails, which sounds simple |
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enough as I always keep a week of daily archives on a different partition, |
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but it wasn't. The routine would go like this: |
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1. Set up KMail the way I like it, but on an empty message set. Save the |
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arrangement for use next time. |
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2. Import the latest archive to a temporary folder. |
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3. Mark all the imported messages as read and move each folder into position |
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under Local Folders. Delete the temporary folder. |
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4. Restore all the filters. |
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5. Cross fingers and fetch new mail (POP as my ISP doesn't offer IMAP). |
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6. KMail goes haywire. It re-creates the temporary folder and proceeds to |
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fill it with duplicates of all the existing messages. All those duplicates |
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prevent me from making a new archive until I clear them all out, |
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painstakingly (yes, I did actually check several thousand e-mails for |
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uniqueness). |
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7. Sigh. Delete the temporary folder again and have another go. Same result. |
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8. Give up and start again. |
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Latterly, it changed slightly and sent all those duplicates to the sent-mail |
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folder instead of creating a new folder for them. I think this coincided |
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with me using a different archive file from the previous day. |
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In the end I used Ark to extract the sent-mail directory from the archive |
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and save it as a simple directory structure under |
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"./.Local Folders.directory", then delete what I'd extracted from the |
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archive. Then the import went smoothly in two stages: sent-mail, and |
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everything else. |
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I lost count of the times I rebooted durning the whole struggle, but it may |
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well have reached 100. To omit a reboot was to risk the next step going |
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wrong. That's compounded by having to start KMail twice each time, because |
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the first time, it shows a progress bar stuck at 0% with no indication of |
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what is supposed to be in progress. This may be connected with the |
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segmentation faults I still see sometimes on shutdown; it's hard to be sure. |
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Let's hope for some stability now. I still feel as though I'm walking on |
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eggshells. |
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Regards |
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Peter |