On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:00:13 +0200
Sven Burmeister wrote:
E-Mails are stored in folders as before.
Nice. Let me post my search for those files.
I tried to find where they are gone and after looking in:
/mnt/12.1/home//Mail/
there was nothing, except Claws Mail storage, but it can happen
that I did not specify ~/Mail/kmail, so it was stored in default
location.
Next:
/mnt/12.1/home//.kde4/share/apps/kmail2/
again nothing. As some mails after a lot of hours of import process,
were imported to KMail2, it was time to look other locations, and
Akonadi was good candidate.
/mnt/12.1/home//.local/share/akonadi/file_db_data/
Has a lot of files in a plain text and mails are really stored as files,
but that doesn't change the fact that for access via KMail2 you need
Akonadi. Even directory name is "file_db_data" so it is part of
"some Akonadi DB".
Add to that what was mentioned in last email:
* UI defaults that break power user workflow ie. mail lists thread
handling; which adds list of items to manually set up.
* one has to customize UI on each new installation; somehow kmailrc
from old installation will not transfer all UI settings.
* default to remove mails from server, which was good 10 years ago, but
not now. Companies are offering gigabytes per account, so one can
keep emails forever. Problem is when you set up kmail in the
VirtualBox and once you forget to set cleanup after 7 day; it vacuums
your account and you have to look elsewhere to find your emails.
* complicated import that is extremely slow; it takes hours to
complete. I found reference somewhere that it takes 1 second per
email. I have in opensuse@opensuse.org 11000 emails since last year.
That is 11000 seconds, or 183 minutes, or 3 hours to migrate. My old
kmail opensuse folder was much bigger.
* for those that have mix of mbox and maildir folders that slow import
is 2 pass process.
I had such setup because it was taking few seconds to open folder, with
a lot of messages, in maildir format, and fraction of the second for
mbox. Later, for some reason, new folders were created in maildir
format, and as new folder with not much emails in it is fast to open I
did not figure out that mailbox is no more default. When I found out it
was too much work to convert, so left that as is, with first major
problem when new KMail2 arrived.
To be honest, I'm missing some stuff that I was used to, like:
* mark thread as read in 1-click,
* find messages marked as important, todo, etc
* custom folder icons,
* recent addresses,
* nicely formatted header,
and probably few more.
With Claws Mail I have application that just works from one
installation to the other and migration is more then simple.
No more fiddling and manual interventions, that I always had with
KMail.
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Regards, Rajko.
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