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

[O. Sinclair]

On 29/06/2011 09:44, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2011-06-28, O. Sinclair wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Indeed.
> You can even remove the "Local Folders" resource and the directory it created
> (probably after double checking that it is indeed empty).
>
>> 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
>
> That seems to be a known issue, no solution yet though.
>
>> 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
>
> Can you check if Nepomuk is running?
> And in case you have Akonadiconsole available, check if there is a Nepomuk
> email feeder agent present?
>
Yes Nepomuk is running. But no Nepomuk email feeder agent - and I do not 
see it as an alternative to "Add" in Akonadiconsole either??

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