[kdepim-users] undo kmail2 migration?

[O. Sinclair]

On 03/08/2011 06:07, upscope wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 02, 2011 01:19:28 PM Marcel Wiesweg wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> now that KMail2 has proven unusable for me during the last few days,
>> the question is if there is a safe way back to kmail1.
>> All emails are pop2 and stored in ~/Mail.
>> I have hopes that the bugs are fixed, but until then I'd like to have
>> a working email reader, without destroying any akonadi database or
>> future update paths.
>> Any experience? Just downgrade and start KMail1?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Marcel
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> I backed out KDE 4.7 today after installing it this morning and finding
> kmail2 unusable. All I did was enable the K46 repo and disabled the K47
> repo. Then using YaST clicked update for all rpms that showed red and a
> downgrade to KDE4.6.5. It a dependence showed I clicked the downgrade
> option. After all was done, I rebooted and started Kontact (Kmail 4.6.5
> eas there. After restarting kmail about three times all my folders, old
> emails and contacts showed up. Only proble was then some confusion bu
> kmail and duplicate messages from the successful migration when I
> installed kde 4.7. I found that ~home/.kde4/share/apps/kmail2 folder was
> still there, I renamed it kmail2-old, I left kmail-migrator folder
> alone, even though I think you can deleted both. Kmail is now back to
> normal and worked as before.
>
> Only thing apparently not migrated or restored was my calendar but i had
> both a ics and vcs backup. I just clicked on the back file (ics first)
> and it asked what I wanted to do. I answer merge with default calendar.
>
> Everything else that I use seemed to work in 4.7. If I could get the
> distribution groups to work I'd stay with 4.6.5 for awhile. Not sure if
> 4.7 work, could not test it. Will try on 12.1 ms3 tommorrow.
>
> Hope above helps.
I have no idea of your distro but in Kubuntu for now KMail2 is in a 
separate repository. What I did was remove said repo, update the 
sources. Then I uninstalled KMail and reinstalled. All worked well after 
that, had a minor hickup upgrading to 4.7 but was sorted. Still on 
KMail1 and thanks for that for now...

Sinclair
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