Re: Jumping ship

On Thursday 01 December 2011 08:29:04 Paul Campbell wrote:
> 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.

I've only found this through Googling.   I haven't had the experience myself 
since current Debian is still using Kmail 1.13.5.
 
> 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

Thanks for the info.   I'll save it for when Debian moves to Kmail2.

cr

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