Re: Considering to switch away from KDEPIM/Akonadi

Dominique Dumont - 07.04.19, 20:05:
> On Sunday, 7 April 2019 00:07:51 CEST Matthias Müller wrote:
> > I've read a lot of switching from MySQL to MariDB or PostgreSQL or
> > vica versa or …
> > 
> > But: How to do that?
> 
> On my Debian I did:
> 
> - apt install akonadi-backend-postgresql postgresql
> - in kontact, export all filters to a file
> - delete filters
> - stop kontact
> - akonadictl stop
> - rm -r .local/share/akonadi/*
> - mkdir .local/share/akonadi/db_data
> - edit .config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc to set Driver=QPSQL in %General
> section - akonadictl start
> - then open kontact (or kmail).
> - then the mails are downloaded from servers
> - import the filters that were imported previously
> 
> There's no need to redo the account configuration. But folder
> properties (like expiration) are lost.

Thanks for this.

Exporting filters and then deleting them is a good idea to avoid 100's of 
folder for filter not found dialogs.

-- 
Martin