[Kde-pim] migrating from KMail1 to KMail2 (and back?)

[Kevin Krammer]

Hi Sebas,

On Thursday, 2010-06-17, Sebastian Kügler wrote:

> As you can see, we're a bit fuzzy on what will actually work in the
> migration process:
> 
> - Are the two configs + data completely independant?
> - Can KMail1's config be kept, so users who try 2, and want to go back to 1
>   can do that easily?

The config is copied on first migration attempt. It can be repeated in full by 
deleting the newly created config (and kmail-migratorrc which stores the 
migration state).

So, config wise, this is not a problem.

> - Is the migration process destructive, so after migration, the KMail1
> config + cached data is gone?

The migration process itself is only destructive on the user's choice.
I.e. when migrating disconnected IMAP accouts, users are presented with the 
option to either keep the old cache or deleting it after import.

However, after migration, i.e. when using the new setup, certain portions of 
the old KMail setup (metadata) might become invalid due to folders being 
modified and thus making the KMail index files "too old".

> - If so, which would be the files to backup, so we can communicate that to
> our users (this is documented somewhere, right? :))?

Userbase might have pages related to backup of mail setups.

I actually wrote a blog entry about testing migration which contains 
information about involved files, etc. but kdedevelopers.org doesn't let me 
login, so I could publish it yet.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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