[Kde-pim] "Resource is damaged"

[Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak]

Dnia czwartek, 25 lipca 2013 08:52:34 O. Sinclair pisze:
> On Wednesday 24 July 2013 11:12 PM Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > First of all, I'm new here, but far from new to KMail. I'd been using
> > KMail/Kontact for at least 8 years and had always been very happy with it
> > -- in terms of functionality, ease-of-use, customizability and
> > performance
> > 
> > However, when I have first tried using the new Akonadi-based KMail some
> > years ago, it was unusable to me. Migration wizard didn't migrate filters,
> > there were duplicate and missing e-mails after migration, there were
> > problems with transports and resources... As e-mail has been and still is
> > the most important tool in my line of work I decided that Akonadi must
> > mature a bit before I can start using it. I happily got back to KMail
> > 1.13.x.
> > 
> > Last week my distro introduced an upgrade from KMail 1.13.x to 4.10.5. I
> > decided to try (after doing a full back-up, of course). Migration wizard
> > went through and...
> > 
> > ...I got the very same, identical even, problems I had years ago! Missing
> > e- mails, duplicate e-mails, several-second delay between clicking on a
> > folder and seeing the contents; finally -- resources being marked
> > "damaged" causing KMail to completely stop working (I can click on folder
> > names, but the contents never get displayed) and me losing access to ~50k
> > e-mails.
> > 
> > But I also got new problems -- password dialogue showing out of focus (so
> > that I need to take my hands off of keyboard and onto the mouse, click,
> > get
> > back to keyboard and type-in the password; annoying if  have to do it
> > several dozen times a day), for one.
> > 
> > So my question is:
> >  - what is the state of Akonadi and KMail 4.x?
> >  - how can I get my e-mail resource fixed so that I could start using my
> >  
> >    e-mail client again?
> > 
> > I can revert to the backup and downgrade KMail again, of course, if you'd
> > say this is the best course of action.
> 
> I think mabye kdepim-users at kde.org would be a better forum for this question
> but even so:
> personally I gave up on migrating when I upgraded (though that was quite
> some time ago). I moved my original mailfolders to something like
> ~/oldmails/ and made a fresh start with Kmail2. Set up my accounts and
> imported all old mail, redid my filters (who would be pointing to wrong
> folders in any case as the format changed if I remember correctly.

Maybe the migration wizard should, in that case, be deprecated and the message 
be clear: start anew, import your old mail by hand? I mean, why mislead people 
like that?

> Note that at the time I only used pop accounts so had all mail I wanted
> stored locally on my disk.

I only use POP and Disconnected IMAP. And do regular backups.

> there is a long thread on this recently on kdepim-users where you might find
> more useful information. There is old information on this on the Kubuntu
> website that could still be useful:
> https://wiki.kubuntu.org/OneiricOcelot/Final/Kubuntu/Kmail2

Thanks.

-- 
Pozdr
rysiek
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