Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1786 mails)

[Carl Hartung <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:33:12 +0000
eddie <eddieleprince@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Having installed by upgrade, opensuse 12.1 everything seems to have
> gone smoothly except for akonadi and kmail.  The migration failed
> which, if I understand correctly, is a common problem but kmail
> continually failed to even start successfully.  Having done some
> googling, kmail now starts with no error messages but also with no
> email messages, no folders and I can't send or receive messages.
> I have now install evolution and it works fine. Sees all my messages
> and folders, and I can both send and receive mail.  I would be glad
> to hear if anyone is using the new kmail, what they did to get it
> going.  I connect to both pop and imap servers for my mail.
>
> Many thanks
> Eddie

Hi Eddie,

You're just over a day late :-)

From Will Stephenson on this list on the 16th:

> The detailed list of things to backup are:
> ~/.local/share/akonadi (Akonadi's databases)
> ~/.config/akonadi (configuration for Akonadi itself)
> ~/.kde4/share/config/akonadi* (configuration for KDE-based Akonadi
> resources, eg imap or pop accounts)
>
> If you imported mail from an earlier version of KMail, Akonadi will
> be using the maildir under here, so bring those too:
> ~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail
>
> If you made a clean setup, fetched (POP) mail is here:
> ~/.local/share/local-mail
>
> And it is a good idea to bring the full-text index too, to save
> re-indexing your PIM data:
> ~/.kde4/share/apps/nepomuk
> ~/.kde4/share/config/nepomuk*

This was followed up by a note from Sven Burmeister:

> Or ~/.local/share/.local-mail.directory

hth & regards,

Carl
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