[Kde-pim] Mail migration status
laurent Montel
montel at kde.org
Tue May 25 10:41:06 BST 2010
On Lundi 24 Mai 2010 22:30:02 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Monday, 2010-05-24, Thomas McGuire wrote:
> > Hi Kevin,
> >
> > On Friday 21 May 2010 20:02:48 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > the migrator currently show a warning that the following things won't
> > > be
> > >
> > > handled:
> > > "<li>Locally cached IMAP data (will be re-downloaded), pending IMAP
> > >
> > > changes (synchronize with KMail 1 first)</li>"
> > >
> > > done
> > >
> > > "<li>Flags and tags on local mail folders</li>"
> > >
> > > done
> > >
> > > "<li>Folder settings</li>"
> > >
> > > no idea what this includes. Anyone?
> >
> > Basically the stuff that can be set in the folder properties dialog.
>
> According to Laurent's explanation this is as simple as replacing the path
> with the respective collection Id?
Yes
> > > "<li>Filter sources and destinations</li>"
> > >
> > > I think Volker ported filtering at the Akonadi sprint, right?
> >
> > As Laurent said, the config probably still needs to be migrated. I don't
> > want to reconfigure my >150 filters :)
>
> Right.
> Same as above? I.e. replace path with collection Id?
Yes
Same for expiration action (we can define folder)
> > I did not not test migration for myself yet, I had little time for KDE
> > lately. Once a few people have tested the migration with (a copy of)
> > their real data, I think we can remove the migration warning dialog.
> > Did anyone else test this yet?
>
> I haven't had time to test POP3 yet and I only tested DIMAP with my
> demo.kolab.org account.
> Local KMail dir was tested with a copy of most of my actual dir, including
> MBoxes.
>
> I do have a general question on config migration: what about using kmail2rc
> (maybe even call the executable kmail2)?
> There are probably setttings in kmailrc that do no longer make sense, the
> migrator could (assuming we can get a mapping of settings) just migrate
> those which still do.
>
> Has the nice side effect of making the same setup still usable with KMail1
> in fallback scenarios.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
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