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

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday, 2010-06-17, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> On Thursday 17 June 2010 13:22:39 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Thursday, 2010-06-17, Sebastian Kügler wrote:

> > > - 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.
> 
> Alright, I understood that (roughly) from your other emails on this
> subject. What is the default here?

This is a question message box with two options, delete old cache being the 
active/default button, ESC triggering "keep".
I could add another config option to not ask but always keep though.

> > 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".
> 
> Is this reported by KMail then, or what will happen?

AFAIK, KMail will check the timestamp before it attemps loading. If the index 
is to old it is ignored and rebuilt.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 190 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-pim/attachments/20100617/f1a30656/attachment.sig>
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
KDE PIM mailing list kde-pim at kde.org
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-pim
KDE PIM home page at http://pim.kde.org/