Re: kmail2 apparently losing mail while migrating to local imap
Alan McKinnon <[email protected]>
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| Message-ID | <20110907144323.2ab80082@rohan> |
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:23:38 +0200 Darknight <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 24 August 2011 14:56:31 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As part of migrating away from kdepim entirely, I've created a local > > IMAP instance in Dovecot and configured this as a local receiving > > account. It shows up in the left sidebar of kmail. > > > > kmail version 4.7.0 > > KDE version 4.7.0 > > Local folder ~/.local/share/local-mail > > local imap folder ~/.maildir > > > > I've used this local imap trick for years when migrating, it always > > works well. I should be able to drag folder trees, individual > > folders or individual mails from kmail's Local folders to the IMAP > > account and have the original mails be moved. It does not appear to > > work with kmail2 properly. > > > What is kmail2's expected behaviour in this action, and are there > > logs where I can determine what it did and where it put things? > > Have you solved this or do you have a workaround? It's killing me. Yes, I solved the problem quite nicely. I realized that KDEPIM fits all the characteristics of a second major project (read The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks to find out how very dangerous such project are) and is therefore unlikely to ever work properly. So I excised KDEPIM from all my machines and am now happily using claws-mail. Harsh words? Sure. But I believe justified. The final straw (after happily using kmail for 6 years) was when kmail2 started silently deleting mail folders. -- Alan McKinnnon [email protected] _______________________________________________ KDE PIM users mailing list Subscription management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users