I have upgrade my system yesterday from 11.4 to 12.1 after some testing and most seem to work fine but I haven't tested KMail. I thought after it was delayed for so long it should work.
But after starting it the migration failed and the program crashed. I thought this might have something to do that I had a newer version of Kmail for some time (from Tumbleweed) so I removed all akonadi, kmail, kontact and so on settings and directories in my home directory and only restored the kmail folder and the kmailrc. I hope you have done this right. I have tried to do this often during testing kmail2 before 4.7.2 and is really difficult to remove everything the right way. After that the automatic kmail import still failed so I used the kmail-migrator which seems to work fine but if you start Kmail you have your folders but in them are only a few mails which can't really be accessed. Kmail seems to load forever. Migration failed for me, too, maybe because I already have tried several
Am 07.11.2011 09:00, schrieb Tim: older kmail2 versions from KDF.
And even the imap folders shown only some mails. Especially for IMAP folders it is better and easier to remove the resources and set them up anew. After running kmail-migrator Akonadi and Mysql had a high cpu usage which seems to have something to do with an error posted in console during running kmail-migrator.
So do you seriously want people to upgrade or reinstall with a home directory from 11.4 and get all their mails messed up? Not everyone does a backup even if they should.
I mean even if there are not so many Kmail users it worked most of the time for me in the past. Not to mention that it is not so easy to import all your data from this Akonadi mix.
So isn't it possible to ship the "old" Kmail from 4.6 instead, like it was done in the past by the KDE team? Some bugs are not a problem imho but it really seems to be utterly broken and according to forum entries and the IRC other people seem to have the same problem. For me it looks like you should change the subject to "migration to akonadi fails for 12.1 RC2" and submit some bug reports (But I think most is already in bugzilla).
kmail2 itself works well once one has managed to get it configured. Sure kmail1 was a little better, but at least there is no showstopper in kmail2 itself. Automatic migration is the culprit here. Dropping it and let the user do the migration himself (like he needs to do for migration to other email client as well), would save much time an pain. Herbert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org