[kdepim-users] Re: post -migration issues Kontact 4.6

[O. Sinclair]

On 27/06/2011 20:36, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Monday, 2011-06-27, O. Sinclair wrote:
>> I am still trying to come to terms with the new KMail/Kontact.
>>
>> First of all: basics work, that is sending and receiving mail. My
>> accounts (all of them pop3 accounts) were migrated.
>>
>> However, looking at the log from migration it states:
>> [Wed Jun 22 08:49:37 2011] Info   : Migrating local folders in
>> '/home/sinclair/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail'...
>> [Wed Jun 22 08:49:37 2011] Info   : Creating instance of type
>> akonadi_mixedmaildir_resource
>> [Wed Jun 22 08:49:37 2011] Info   : Created local maildir resource.
>> [Wed Jun 22 08:49:37 2011] Info   : Keeping 'Local Folders' for default
>> outbox, sent mail, trash, etc.
>> [Wed Jun 22 08:49:40 2011] Success: Local folders migrated successfully.
>>
>> But they have stayed in '/home/sinclair/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail' and
>> not been moved to /home/sinclair/.local/share/local-mail' that I though
>> was to be the new "standard" for maildir?
>
> It is the default location for any new setup but part of the migrator's job is
> to make sure the mail at its current location can be used without too much
> change, e.g. without moving potentially several gigabytes of data around.
> without moving data away from locations that are potentially part of a backup
> setup, etc.
>
>> browsing around rc-files I seem to have 3 maildir resources, one mixed
>> maildir and two maildir? 2 of them pointing to .../kmail/mail and one to
>> .../local-mail
>
> There should be one mixed_maildir resource pointing to your old kmail storage
> location and potentially one pointing to the new default one.
>
> The latter one usually exists before the migrator is run because it get
> created by the mail dispatcher agent for its default outbox/sent-mail folders.
> The migrator analyzes this resource and attempts to take over this role of
> default folder provider if the other one is still empty.
>
> According to your log snippet the migrator decided to not touch this aspect of
> your setup, so you should have one mixed_maildir resource called "KMail
> Folders" pointing to your kmail data dir and one normal maildir resource
> called "Local Folders" pointing to the new standard location.
>
>> And Local Mail (in GUI) had only Outbox, no trash/sent mail etc. All
>> those are now in "KMail Folders".
>
> Strange.
> Can you check the contents of specialmailcollectionsrc in your KDE config
> directory?
>

phew, am sort of starting to think "scrap it and leave odd stuff in GUI 
who cares". Specialmailcollectsionrc contains:
[SpecialCollections]
DefaultResourceId=akonadi_mixedmaildir_resource_0

which is as it should be as I understand it.

Actually main problems "functionwise" are 3:
1. KMail ever so often reports "conflicts" on incoming mail, it seems to 
be flags ("junk" versus "seen" for example). This frequently causes 
hangs/freezes
2. Filters seem to be "erratic". I have tried to modify my Spam filter 
and it seems to somehow send spam to "trash" (I want them in folder 
Spam) and refuse to mark them as read.
3. Search function, except for "fast search field" on top of message 
list, does not work at all

thanks for your time and efforts,
Sinclair
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