Re: Shortcut key ‘Ctrl-N’ doubly defined

On Friday, 25 August 2017 00:16:35 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday 24 August 2017 21:15:00 Erik Quaeghebeur wrote:
> > > But! In the meantime I found as you said, that in Gentoo KMail is now
> > > at
> > > 5.5.3, so I thought everything in the garden would be rosy. Nope. The
> > > menu option to import messages was greyed out, so bye-bye all my
> > > e-mail
> > > history.
> > 
> > Under what form have you preserved your mail archives?
> 
> The standard KMail archive system, done daily and backed up weekly.
> 
> > > Is this really the state of KMail at the moment: no import facility?
> > > Or
> > > perhaps I went adrift in building the system.
> > 
> > Well, I just upgraded to 5.5.3 and everything was automatically
> > imported,
> > I guess because the new akonadi can work with the database I had and
> > knew
> > how to deal with my KDE 4 KMail config.
> > 
> > I was actually impressed by how trouble-free the upgrade was after the
> > stories I had seen pass by here; the only thing  lost was some
> > finetuning
> > aspects and my filter config.
> 
> Maybe I'll try it then. If it doesn't work out well, I can always spend
> another day and a half rebuilding the previous system.

Well, I've just upgraded and I still have a greyed-out Import menu item.

Two fine-tuning items are important to me and are missing: I can't choose 
the font of my folder list, so it wastes a lot of space and needs a vertical 
scroll bar.

> > (Also, I use a remote IMAP server, so I have no issue with losing my
> > mail
> > locally, but that turned out not be necessary.)
> 
> Ah, well I have to use POP3 because that's what my ISP gives me. Not
> counting GMail, of course, which I leave mostly to my mobile devices.


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Regards,
Peter.