[Bug 167784] New: migrating kmailrc from KDE 3.5.9 to KDE 4.1

[jerome]

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           Summary: migrating kmailrc from KDE 3.5.9 to KDE 4.1
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Unlisted Binaries
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: jeromeh gmail com


Version:            (using KDE 4.1.0)
Installed from:    Unspecified Linux
OS:                Linux

I had difficulty in copying over my Receiving accounts for kmail from KDE 3.5.9 to KDE 4.1  
The receiving accounts were not showing up in KDE 4.1 kmail settings, both POP and IMAP.

Here is how I had been copying over the configuration:

cd ~ # work in home directory
rm -rf .kde4/share/apps/kmail
cp -ra .kde/share/apps/kmail/ .kde4/share/apps/

cp -a .kde/share/config/kmail* .kde/share/config/mailtransports .kde4/share/config/

cp -a .kde/share/config/emaildefaults .kde/share/config/emailidentities .kde4/share/config/

Despite .kde/share/config/kmailrc being copied over, the receiving accounts were ignored.

This warning appeared at runtime for the number of accounts I had:
"Attempt to instantiate a non-existing account type!"

I created a new Receiving account and compared the kmailrc settings with the old kmailrc.  I found they looked similar except that the Type lines differed:
Type=pop 
Type=Pop  <-- new
and
Type=imap
Type=Imap <-- new

Capitalizing "pop" to "Pop", and "imap" to "Imap" caused all the accounts to be recognized when starting KDE 4.1 kmail again.

I don't know if this procedure needs to go into an update script or if KDE code needs to be changed to recognize the old kmailrc format.  But this is how I manually solved the problem.