https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728755 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728755#c10 --- Comment #10 from milan zimmermann <milan.zimmermann@gmail.com> 2012-01-29 21:12:34 UTC --- (In reply to comment #9)
(In reply to comment #8)
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.