[kdepim-users] Understanding kmail imap resources

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 23 March 2008 20:11:27 Werner Joss wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 23. März 2008 20:50:03 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> > ..
>
> ok, after having followed this thread sometime, I decided to once again
> giving this whole (d)imap/groupware stuff a try :D
> and, well, it works now, partly due to some hints from these discussions,
> partly from what I remember from my last experience (~1.5 years ago).
> anyways, the whole procedure is kind of a mess, at least far from beeing
> intuitive ;-) - additionally, rather fragile (importing my ~300 kontacts
> from local resource to the dimap folder resulted in 3 crashes, then a bunch
> of weird error messages, but in the end, success).

Did you export to csv then import, Werner?  It doesn't look as though you can 
import directly.  Last week someone said that the way he did it was to create 
a backup copy of the addressbook, then select all entries and elect to store 
them in the new groupware folder.  That empties your addressbook, which is 
why the backup is vital.  I did it that way and it certainly got them in 
without a crash.  However, since I didn't have the rest working properly I 
don't know whether there would have been any snags.

> moreover, I still don't get it why one has to setup a dimap account for
> groupware functions instead of just beeing able to use an existing (plain)
> imap account.
> I hope akonadi will dramatically improve this situation (will it ?).
>
> werner
> p.s.:
> the kontacts copy process (local -> imap) replaced any umlauts in my
> kontacts with ?'s ...
>
which is being discussed in other threads :-)

Anne
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