Migrating KMail

[Martin Steigerwald]

Martin Grashoff - 02.09.18, 08:40:
> Dear PIMees,
> 
> I am really fond of Kontact, but migrating KMail from LinuxMint to KDE
> neon has been a nightmare. The PIM Settings Exporter really messed it
> up and the KDE documentation was largely outdated. I gave it a
> posting on my website:
> https://www.marnel.net/2018/08/migrating-kmail/

I recommend: Do not migrate, copy over database and all local data 
references by Akonadi resources. Reading part of your blog post, you did 
something similar. However in my experience you can also just copy over 
the configuration files and the database as long as you use at least the 
same or a higher version of Akonadi + KDEPIM. In fact… I´d never migrate 
anything when switching distros. I´d just copy over my whole home 
directory, fix some of the possible issues after booting it up with the 
new distro for the first time and be done with it.

But as this is more of a user support question I suggest you continue on 
kdepim-users. There have been posts, years ago already, where all those 
files are. I am not subscribed there currently, but others may help.

As for giving feedback to KDEPIM developers: I suggest you open one or 
more than one bug report about KDEPIM Settings Exporter depending on how 
many different issues you had. A blog post may help other users (or go 
lost in the lot of search results about woes with Akonadi), but it is 
not a suitable channel to provide easily actionable (!) feedback to 
developers. It is also helpful to focus on the facts you observed and 
keep bug reports short and concise and keep the personal story behind it 
out of them.

There are only a few people working regularly and consistently on 
KDEPIM. So the easier you make it for them to act on your feedback, the 
more likely they will be able time-wise to fix the issues you faced.

You can also choose to contributing to the documentation in order to 
help other users.

I never used KDE Settings Exporter, so I have no idea how reliable and 
complete it is.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin