[Kde-pim] Mail migration status

[Kevin Krammer]

On Wednesday, 2010-05-26, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 May 2010, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > Short follow up.
> > 
> > Replacing of all "path based folder identifiers" with "collection
> > based folder identifiers" should work now as well.
> > 
> > However, what I've discovered while doing and checking my
> > implementation is that the normal/online IMAP also seems to store at
> > least headers and index files in apps/kmail/imap.
> > 
> > Are those really just local caches, i.e. at all times present at the
> > server, or should I import them as well?
> 
> At least the message flags (replied, important, etc.) are not guaranteed
> to be present on the server. Since quite some time KMail tries to store
> the flags on the server, but this requires the IMAP server to support a
> certain IMAP extension and for messages which are older than KMail's
> ability to store the flags on the server the flags are not stored on the
> server.

Ah, I see, thank you for clarifying.

> It would be really nice if this information could be retained by the
> migration.

I'll look into it.
So far it doesn't seem any different than the DIMAP cache, just that the mails 
(or rather their headers) are stored in an mbox file per folder instead of 
maildir.

Cheers,
Kevin

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