Am Dienstag, 29. August 2017, 11:06:22 schrieb stakanov:
a) is it possible to migrate my mail from Kmail5 to Kmail3? What format would I choose for archival in order to be able to import them into kmail3.
Actually, a migration should not even be necessary. kmail5 (and 4) still use the same actual storage.
In the case of IMAP that's irrelevant anyway, but I suppose you use POP3 and local maildirs.
IIRC, the location for local folders was configurable in kmail3 too, so just point it to your current maildir (probably ~/.local/share/local-mail, but hat's configurable in Akonadi too) and all should work.
Settings (like filters) will not be respected though, and I'm not sure if it's possible to migrate them back.
I did use kmail3 and kmail4 intermittently years ago (4.7.0/1, mainly because there were performance problems with POP3 that caused timeouts for me and kmail4 was unable to actually download all my mails because the server timed out). Though in my case, I started with kmail3 and continued to use the same folder (~/Mail/), as kmail4/Akonadi migrated the settings automatically anyway. Meanwhile (years ago...) I switched all my mail accounts to IMAP though for other reasons. (mainly to be able to access them from several systems/locations, and having all changes reflected everywhere automatically, e.g. I got bored of marking the same mails as read multiple times....)
Sorry for not replying earlier, I didn't have time when I read this and hoped others would reply, and then forgot about it later on...
Kind Regards, Wolfgang Thank you for replying. I do not mind the filters, as with every "generational change" I had to set
In data lunedì 25 settembre 2017 12:28:46 CEST, Wolfgang Bauer ha scritto: them up one more time "ex nuovo" so it is not really a big deal.... provided they work. I asked because for one, I understand that Kmail4 is not longer maintained but there is still a "fan club" for kmail3. And, to tell the truth, for my whole Linux "carreer" I never(!) (and the exclamation mark is obligated here) lost ANY mail when I had kmail3. For me the uttermost most solid piece of software I ever used (from the naive user point of view, programmers may see that differently). It was the program that "just worked", you use it and "forgettaboutit". I tried now to install the package of your repo. I cleared all the cache. The only "strange thing" it checked 45 root mail messages (I have a problem with rootmail too, but this in another thread) for about 40 minute with very high system load. Since then silence, low load, low temp, up to now.....filter work -- looks good to tell the truth. So maybe I will not have to migrate.... at least I hope. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org