[Kde-pim] Mail migration status

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday, 2010-05-27, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Thursday 27 May 2010, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yes. That should be the only difference.

Should work now as well, though my current code seems to have problems with 
subfolders of GMail's [GMail] folder.
Will have a look into that tomorrow.

Cheers,
Kevin

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