[Kde-pim] KMail DIMAP Cache Migration Fallback

[Kevin Krammer]

On Monday, 2010-05-31, Till Adam wrote:
> On Monday 31 May 2010 12:08:16 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > while pondering about useful behavior in cases of migration failure, I
> > 
> >  thought about this one:
> > The DIMAP cache is, from the data point of view, just like the KMail mail
> > directory, i.e. a maildir tree plus index files.
> > 
> > In the unfortunate event of failing to import the cache, we could fall
> > back
> > 
> >  to create a local resource for the respective account's cache.
> > 
> > Or  we could create a local resource for all caches, which would as a
> > side effect allow users to delete the cached mails directly from their
> > mail applications.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> Makes sense to me, maybe this could be an option in the migration process?
> To help people clean up?

You mean something like

"Keep cache as local folders"
"Remove cache after migration"

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