[Kde-pim] About Kmail-2

[Denny]

Am Samstag, 15. Oktober 2011, 20:44:14 schrieb Andras Mantia:
> Denny wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 14. Oktober 2011, 18:11:44 schrieb Markus Slopianka:
> >> KMail 1 runs under KR 4.7 in case you want the older version. Not sure
> >> how you can get KMail 1 packages for Kubuntu 11.10 but under openSUSE
> >> 11.4 it works just fine.
> >> 
> >> Best way for KMail 2 is not automatic migration but a fresh start with
> >> clean settings.
> > 
> > Please, post any documentation / guidelines how to do this, while
> > keeping
> > all existing data. This is what I would like to do, as soon as I have
> > some strategy to import my data. I'm using kontakt for quite some time
> > and would like to see all my business/private calendar/addressbook
> > coming with me. Because I'm using imap for mal, I'm not too worried
> > about the mail migration.
> 
> Start Kmail2, don't do the migration. Create new IMAP account, create new
> maildir account and point to the existing maildir folder, etc. There are
> some downside of doing it instead of migration (assuming you have 4.7.2,
> which you should have, there were many bugfixes in 4.7.2, including data
> loss fixes);
> -your IMAP mails will be downloaded again. Of course you should NOT have
> not-synchronized KMail1 IMAP accounts, otherwise it might happen that your
> mail is not yet on the server, so KMail2 has no chance to get that.
> - if you had local filters, they won't be migrated
Ok, that's good to know. So I don't have to download all mail again from 
server and could also archive mails in future locally without the risk of 
losing them with the next upgrade.
> 
> Same for calendars, if you keep it in local files, or add a Kolab resource
> if you use a Kolab groupware server.
This is the most interesting part for me. I will certainly try this out on a 
fresh install before applying it to my work machine.
> 
> In general KMail2 and KMail1 can live aside, they even have different
> configuration files. For IMAP they will use a different cache, while for
> maildir, they could even share the same maildir folders.
Ok, that's not an issue, I would migrate all machines to the same versions.
> 
> Andras

Thank you very much, Andras, for sharing you thoughts. I think, that 
alternative route of "migration" should also be added to documentation. Anne!?

Denny

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