Re: kmail2 apparently losing mail while migrating to local imap

Am Montag, 26. September 2011 schrieb Kevin Krammer:
> Hi Martin,

Hi Kevin,

> On Saturday, 2011-09-24, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > I am using KDE 4.6.5 and KDEPIM 4.4.11 works quite stable except for
> > some quite annoying hangs now and then when trying to send a mail.
> > The composer window would just sit there greyed out and nothing
> > apparently is happening anymore. KMail won´t respond to clicks
> > either except for closing the window when it offers me to sent as
> > draft. Which I click then, to have an additional copy. But then it
> > doesn´t appear to do anything. I sigterm or even sigkill it and then
> > if I am lucky I have the mail in sent folder.
> 
> Hmm, maybe some error message or other dialog not appearing in the
> foreground but intercepting events?
> Greyed out sounds like how the composer looks for example when the
> pinentry helper is asking for a signing/excryption passphrase.
> Usually pops up above KMail/Composer but override window settings could
> prevent that.
> 
> > So I wonder is loosing mail with KMail 2 some experiences of very few
> > users or is it more wide-spread? What about the idea to import
> > instead of migrate?
> 
> Generally we would like to transform the migrator into an importer
> specialized in importing KMail1 setups, e.g. basically doing what the
> migrator does but in parallel to running KMail2, not delaying its
> startup.
> Haven't had time to do that though.
> 
> It might help to run the migrator explicitly, i.e. not through running
> KMail2 but instead invoking it manually
> 
> kmail-migrator --interactive

Thank you for your detailed answer and thanks also to Andras and anyone 
else who answered.

I appreciate it.

As far as I see in the related Debian SCM webpage the Debian Qt/KDE team 
works on KDE 4.7.x already. So lets see when they hit the repositories.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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