https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728755 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728755#c2 --- Comment #2 from Tim - 2011-11-17 22:41:22 UTC --- After restoring .kde4 and .local I have managed to prevent the import from failing by activating Nepomuk beforehand. Nevertheless Kmail still hangs while accessing my local mails although Imap has worked. Because of that I switched back to 11.4 which means Kmail 4.4. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728755 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728755#c4 Kjetil Kilhavn changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |kjetil@kilhavn.no --- Comment #4 from Kjetil Kilhavn 2011-11-21 22:14:03 UTC --- http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/4678... The crash with error message about inability to get resource collection was in my case caused by an error in ~/.kde4/share/config/specialmailcollectionsrc - it pointed to akonadi_maildir_resource_0. I renamed akonadi_maildir_resource_1rc (in ~/.kde4/share/config/) to akonadi_maildir_resource_0rc and that took care of the crash. KMail has an account for "Local Folders" (no data) in addition to the translated account (in my case "Lokale mapper" (which has correct configuration and points to ~/.local/share/local-mail). This is probably an error in the migrator. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728755 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728755#c6 --- Comment #6 from milan zimmermann 2011-11-24 22:33:54 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3)

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259355

Launch akonadiconsole, find the Local Folders Agent, configure it natively, if the path is empty or an invalid path, set the path to .local/share/local-mail .

Does this help?

Not really in my case. I fixed this a while ago, this only makes my KMail2 start but pre-update messages never show up. I submitted 732692 with my details -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728755 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728755#c8 --- Comment #8 from milan zimmermann 2012-01-24 22:45:47 UTC --- In conclusion to this (from my perspective) - it seems almost impossible to get old mail back. If you were using KMail since long time ago, update to KMail2, for all practical purposes, means old email will be lost. I have gotten some important folders back by copying them to a newly created directory, creating a mixed resource for each folder and importing it one by one. Overall the process was so complicated and lenghty, and experimental (many man days), I cannot repeat all steps, one I remember was old indexes had to be deleted. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728755 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728755#c10 --- Comment #10 from milan zimmermann 2012-01-29 21:12:34 UTC --- (In reply to comment #9)

(In reply to comment #8)

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In conclusion to this (from my perspective) - it seems almost impossible to get old mail back. If you were using KMail since long time ago, update to KMail2, for all practical purposes, means old email will be lost.

I have gotten some important folders back by copying them to a newly created directory, creating a mixed resource for each folder and importing it one by one. Overall the process was so complicated and lenghty, and experimental (many man days), I cannot repeat all steps, one I remember was old indexes had to be deleted.

Maybe is a little too late for Milan, but I want to give "hope" to others that may feel the same, including me this week when I update from 11.2 to 12.1. I had the same migrations errors as others and at first I was very frustrated. But little but little, resolving Nepomuk errors starting it from the commad line I was able to first start Kmail, then import the messages, the copy them to the final folders and up and running. But I still have problems with filters. When I active a filter messages get duplicated. Not when I execute the filter manually. I can live without automatic filters for a time. In short I'm very glad with this version. Just give it time to grow on you. And don't give up! Your old email will not be lost! :-)

Hi Wilson: thanks for sharing. To comment some more, I am in no way giving up on KDE (or Opensuse) for this migration :) I have been using KDE since it's alpha (was it like, 1996/1997?) and love it with almost no complains. KMail has been such a workhorse for me, I have KMail messages since 2000 carried through all updates, even one "cross distro" 7-8 years ago. There are issues with this upgrade, at least on older bigger mail directories - they are fixable, as you have (and partly I have) managed, but require lenghty manual work. Hopefully most users went through the upgrade ok. BTW, my filters were converted OK and I do not have dual messages. That part went well :) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.