[Kde-pim] Re: mixedmaildir akonadi resource

[laurent Montel]

Le Thursday 21 July 2011 11:00:05 Kevin Krammer a écrit :
> On Thursday, 2011-07-21, laurent Montel wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Yesterday I decide to move all my emails from mixedmaildir (created when I
> > migrated my emails from kmail1) to maildir directly.
> > 
> > Not really easy because:
> > -> when we create a new folder and just dnd emails in new folder, it copys
> > just header from email => a big bug here. Don't know why
> 
> Check if you have ExternalPayload=false in your akonadiserverrc

No I don't have it.

> > And other bug when I dnd a folder directly from mixed to maildir resouces
> > it doesn't copy mails.... not good too. I don't know why.
> 
> Would be interesting to know if the resource got the retrieveItem calls for 
> all messages that had to be moved.

Will look at it today.

> > So after that I created a maildir resource and use path from my email (
> > ~/Mail), and after that I can really use KMail2.
> > 
> > I think that mixedmaildir is not optimized :(
> > It takes a lot of cpu when we access to folder.
> 
> It uses ResourceBase::retrieveCollections() which uses ItemSync.
> Currently in the least advanced mode, we could try changing to incremental 
> mode or by-pass the resource base implementation entirely (like Volker did 
for 
> the an improved variant of maildir).
>
> > I think that we must optimize it or (better) create a programme to migrate
> > to maildir all old kmail1 folders.
> 
> We could provide an import or convert option for those willing to move to 
pure 
> maildir (i.e. don't need mbox folders).
> Would take too long for migration, but as an explicitly started process this 
> should be OK.

I think it will better for the future, I think that we must try to kill all 
old kmail1 mail format :)

Regards

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