Re: Jumping ship

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:44:12 cr wrote:
> For the past few years I've been using Kmail under Gnome.   I just installed
> the 'latest' versions with Debian Squeeze.   On starting kmail from the
> command line (ssh'd in a terminal window from my laptop, that's why) I
> noticed a lot of messages about akonadi.   Googling showed it's some sort
> of system- wide database that Kmail2 uses.   A frantic and furious search
> showed that my Maildir files are all still there.    So if Kmail 1.13 still
> uses Maildir why's it loading Akonadi?

I went through this a couple of months ago by choosing to switch to Kubuntu 
OO. In general OO is a decidedly better KDE release than previous ones but 
this area - kmail transitions - it's pretty much a disaster .... as you've 
found out.

KDE have moved all the mail handling into Akonadi - there's a migration app 
that's supposed to handle moving your mail files into  the internal data base - 
it fails under a number of situations.

In my case I was a (very!) early KDE adopter - KDE 1.0 - I had a mixture of 
maildir and mbox files. 

To fix your saved maildir files you can simply download akonadi console, run it 
(note the warning) and choose Local Files->Configure->Configure Natively and set 
the name of the directory where you keep your mail files

Or there's a akonadiconsole option "Kmail maildir" in akonadiconsoile use Add-
>Kmail Maildir - I haven't tried this - I think it allows you to add multiple 
directories

Mbox files can be imported with akonadi console by choosing Add->Mbox and 
naming the mbox file

----

What caught me were  my sent-mail and outbox - they're 'special' - in my case 
they were mbox format files (from KDE 1) problem- the KDE migration app just 
threw up its hands and I couldn't send mails for ages before I tried this - if 
I'd known I'd have copied these files somewhere else and deleted them before 

I can't describe the fix for this problem, there was a lot of floundering 
around, gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair - I didn't keep records - it 
involves moving the files somewhere else and hacking on the akonadi DB through 
akonadi console - then reimporting the data using a temporary akonadi mbox 

	Paul

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