Re: E-Mails are cleared out from IMAP-folders after mailbox migration

Hi Ingo,
thank you for your advice.

> > System: kdepim/akonadi binary packages of a standard OpenSuse 15.6
> > installation, version: 23.08.5, release bp156.1.3.
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> This version is 2 years old. The current version is 25.08.1.

Maybe, but this is the version OpenSuse ships for their distro 15.6, the=
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OpenSuse development communitiy considers that version as stable. Do you t=
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the data (emails) management system has undergone major changes from 23.08=
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25.08?


> Maybe it helps if you create the folders manually on the new server and =
then
> copy the mails from the local folders to the remote folders one folder a=
t a
> time.

That's what I did. In my Webmail interface I created a parallel tree=20
structure, say instead of folder "ABC" I created a folder "ABC___ " (for e=
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affected folder). Then in contact I copied the messages of the affected fo=
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to their destination. This time the messages remained. They even remained =
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I moved them to their target destination (i.e. ABC___ -> ABC).

So the problem seems to be solved for the moment. Still I have a bad feeli=
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considering that E-Mails might vanish without actively deleting them. Some=
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the emails I have been keeping for more than fifteen years. I'd probably n=
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that they are gone not before I start searching for them. I think, I will =
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more frequent use of the vailable backup tools such as pimsettingexporter.=
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> Otherwise, the best advice I can give you is to try a newer version of
> KMail. A slow-moving distribution like yours may have some advantages, b=
ut
> the fact that it provides super old versions of applications which will
> never receive any bugfixes is rather a disadvantage.

I have been using SuSE/OpenSuse over decades, since a friend persuaded me =
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give Linux a chance. As to their versions of applications philosophy, well=
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it's their philosophy and a lot of people put in much effort and time to=
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provide us a stable desktop distribution, which is easy to work with. Ther=
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are thousands of packages. To be honest, kdepim is the part which gives me=
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most of the headaches among these.

Best regards
Thomas Hejze
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