Re: Problem with Kmail after upgrade to KDE 4. can't read all emails

On Wednesday 14 January 2009, Claus Hausberger wrote:
> Hello
>
> I upgrade to the latest OpenSuse 11.1 with KDE 4.1. Before I used
> OpenSuse 8.2 with Kmail from KDE 3.
>
> I made a backup of the old $HOME/Mail folder where all my Emails are.

How did you create the backup? Onto which medium did you copy 
$HOME/Mail?


> In order to upgrade my old Emails to the new Kmail, I try the
> following things, all without much success.
>
> 1). I tried to import the backup with the Import feature of Kmail 4.
> That didn't work. Only about 10% of the old emails were importet.
>
> 2) I copied the old Mail folder to $HOME/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail.
> That worked better. I can see all my emails. But there is a problem
> with emails in subfolders.  When I click on them the subject changes
> to "No Subject" and the Sender changes to "Unknown". Before clicking
> on the email, the information was correct. I did a search via google
> and found the advice to delete the index files. But that didn't work.
> After that, all the mails in the subfolders were gone and the folders
> were empty.
>
>
> I still have the original backup, of course.
>
> Any idea on what to do to get all my Emails into the current version
> of Kmail that comes with OpenSuse 11.1?

Try 2) again, but this time delete the index files of the problematic 
folders before starting KMail.


Regards,
Ingo

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