[opensuse] No mails after kmail2 migration
Hi, after installing 12.1 I tried to start kmail for three users. In all three cases migration failed immediately. I was then able to run the kmail-migrator tool by hand and my accounts and folder structure got migrated. However all folders are empty. Kmail2 does not show any mails after migration. How can this be fixed? I still see the mails in my $HOME/Mail directory. Kmail just is not able to read them. What to do? Christoph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Am Mittwoch, 28. Dezember 2011, 03:29:03 schrieb Christoph Bartoschek:
How can this be fixed? I still see the mails in my $HOME/Mail directory. Kmail just is not able to read them. What to do?
You should backup your email. Then you can check your resources in systemsettings > personal information. If you have a kmail resource but your mail is maildir only, remove the kmail resource and add a maildir resource or change the path of the local folders resource to your Mail folder. After that it takes some time until akonadi has read your email. You might want to right-click and start "refresh" from a folder's context menu. akonadi creates a cache of your emails and indexes the mails' status etc. You might also want to update to STABLE KDE repo in order to get kdepim fixes before they are released officially. HTH Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Am 28.12.2011 22:50, schrieb Sven Burmeister:
Am Mittwoch, 28. Dezember 2011, 03:29:03 schrieb Christoph Bartoschek:
How can this be fixed? I still see the mails in my $HOME/Mail directory. Kmail just is not able to read them. What to do?
You should backup your email. Then you can check your resources in systemsettings> personal information. If you have a kmail resource but your mail is maildir only, remove the kmail resource and add a maildir resource or change the path of the local folders resource to your Mail folder.
After that it takes some time until akonadi has read your email. You might want to right-click and start "refresh" from a folder's context menu. akonadi creates a cache of your emails and indexes the mails' status etc.
You might also want to update to STABLE KDE repo in order to get kdepim fixes before they are released officially.
I do not have a maildir-only directory. It is really mixed. I've tried the 4.7.4 packages but they do not work. I've also set up 4.7.95 inside of a virtual box and I see that it works. This means that the mixedmail_resource was fixed for kde 4.8. Unfortunately this is not stable. I will now either move everything to google mail within the virtual box. Or if I decide to keep kmail I try to move everything to a maildir only hierarchy and then move this to my main machine. Christoph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
This is how I got my mails back: - I copied the old Mail directory to a machine still using Opensuse 11.3 and an older Kmail. - On the machine I connected to an IMAP server and copied all mails to the server - On my machine I copied the mails back from the IMAP server into a new folder structure. Christoph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 12/29/2011 05:34 PM, Christoph Bartoschek wrote:
This is how I got my mails back:
- I copied the old Mail directory to a machine still using Opensuse 11.3 and an older Kmail.
- On the machine I connected to an IMAP server and copied all mails to the server
- On my machine I copied the mails back from the IMAP server into a new folder structure.
I was wrong. This crap of software did not copy the mails correctly from the IMAP server to the new folder structure. Christoph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
From what I can tell after many years with KMail: With Suse 11.4 I started using Thunderbird (currently still on 3.1.x) and I'm almost completely happy. Quite unlikely I will ever switch back to any KMail version...
Am 29.12.2011 21:27, schrieb Christoph Bartoschek:
On 12/29/2011 05:34 PM, Christoph Bartoschek wrote:
This is how I got my mails back:
- I copied the old Mail directory to a machine still using Opensuse 11.3 and an older Kmail.
- On the machine I connected to an IMAP server and copied all mails to the server
- On my machine I copied the mails back from the IMAP server into a new folder structure.
I was wrong. This crap of software did not copy the mails correctly from the IMAP server to the new folder structure.
Christoph
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So I have now finished the migration. It was really painful. But this is what worked: - I copied the old Mail directory to a machine still using Opensuse 11.3 and an older Kmail. - Using this kmail I created an archive of the mails. - On the new machine I wiped out everything and started with a clean setup. - I imported the archive to the new machine. Unfortunately the Read flag was cleared so I had to mark all mails as read again. After millions of dead ends I found this to be working. Now there are still some annoying bugs left, but at least my mails are there. Christoph Am 29.12.2011 21:43, schrieb Smartysmart34:
From what I can tell after many years with KMail: With Suse 11.4 I started using Thunderbird (currently still on 3.1.x) and I'm almost completely happy. Quite unlikely I will ever switch back to any KMail version...
Am 29.12.2011 21:27, schrieb Christoph Bartoschek:
On 12/29/2011 05:34 PM, Christoph Bartoschek wrote:
This is how I got my mails back:
- I copied the old Mail directory to a machine still using Opensuse 11.3 and an older Kmail.
- On the machine I connected to an IMAP server and copied all mails to the server
- On my machine I copied the mails back from the IMAP server into a new folder structure.
I was wrong. This crap of software did not copy the mails correctly from the IMAP server to the new folder structure.
Christoph
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