[kdepim-users] switching versions, issues

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Thu Nov 20 20:06:57 GMT 2008


On Thursday 20 November 2008, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> I'd been running Slackware 11.0 on one machine here,  and more or
> less doing okay with what I had going there as far as kmail is
> concerned.  I recently acquired another machine and installed
> Slackware 12.1 on it,  and thanks to a post in here I was able to
> move all of my mail and my settings to this machine and start using
> it without having to re-do an awful lot of filters, all of my tweaks,
>  etc.
>
> However!
>
> I don't choose to use kwallet.  And as before,  kmail is complaining
> about this.  Unlike before,  even though I have checked the boxes
> that say to store the password,  and even though I tell it to do so, 
> I get this complaint EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEND A MESSAGE!  And
> furthermore,  I get it twice more (since I have two accounts set up)
> every time I elect to enter "configure kmail".  This is getting
> really annoying,  is there any way to make it stop?

I hope others can help you with this. Since I do not experience this 
problem, I have no idea where to look. I',m sorry.


> Further,  with the problems I encountered earlier on involving
> expiring unread posts (even though I didn't want it to,  I ended up
> with the software losing mail on me),  my use involves holding down
> the shift key as I switch from one message to the next and then ever
> 10 messages or so hitting shift-delete to get rid of them.  Only all
> of a sudden shift-delete has stopped working for me!  Nothing happens
> at all when I press that key combo,  so I'm forced to use just
> delete,  and then have to switch to the trash folder,  select "empty
> trash",  confirm that I really do want to do that,  and that wastes a
> lot of my time.

Check (under Settings->Configure Shortcuts) whether Shift+Delete is 
still assigned as shortcut to Delete.


> Any suggestions as to what I might do to fix this?  Or,  barring
> that,  is there any way that I can remove this version and switch
> back to the version I was using before?  I don't have the other
> machine set up any more,  but this one is kmail 1.9.9 under KDE
> 3.5.9,  I think the other version might've been 1.9.4 or so.  I
> suppose I could set that machine up again and see if it's necessary. 
> I'm thinking that sticking one of the install CDs from the older
> version into this machine might be the way to go,  but I need to know
> if there are any gotchas in that path...

In theory all versions 1.9.x of KMail should be compatible. I don't know 
of anything that could cause problems when switching from 1.9.9 back to 
1.9.4, but I cannot give you a guarantee that there won't be any 
problems. So be sure to make a backup before you try this.


Regards,
Ingo
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