[Bug 169827] Import settings from KDE 3.x versions of KMail

[Tristan Miller]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169827





--- Comment #11 from Tristan Miller <psychonaut nothingisreal com>  2009-04-24 21:14:14 ---
According to <https://features.opensuse.org/306350> openSUSE has a command-line
tool called kde4-migrate, which is completely undocumented, and also doesn't
seem to properly migrate the KMail settings.  I'm not even sure what it's
actually doing, as it doesn't produce any output.

Just now I tried manually copying the ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail,
~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc to the relevant places under ~/.kde4, and then
started up KDE4 KMail.  It appears that everything (filters, sending/receiving
accounts, mail folders, etc.) apart from identities was successfully imported. 
(However, I didn't play around much, so it's possible things are broken.)

I'm still not sure why this feature was marked as RESOLVED/DOWNSTREAM.  Why
should it be the responsibility of vendors to provide the import tool?  Only
the KMail developers know the difference in kmailrc file formats between KDE3
and KDE4.  There's no need for each vendor to code its own importer which does
the exact same thing.

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