[kdepim-users] kmail2 apparently losing mail while migrating to local imap

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:23:38 +0200
Darknight <darknight7 at tiscali.it> wrote:

> On Wednesday 24 August 2011 14:56:31 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > As part of migrating away from kdepim entirely, I've created a local
> > IMAP instance in Dovecot and configured this as a local receiving
> > account. It shows up in the left sidebar of kmail.
> > 
> > kmail version      4.7.0
> > KDE version        4.7.0
> > Local folder       ~/.local/share/local-mail
> > local imap folder  ~/.maildir
> > 
> > I've used this local imap trick for years when migrating, it always
> > works well. I should be able to drag folder trees, individual
> > folders or individual mails from kmail's Local folders to the IMAP
> > account and have the original mails be moved. It does not appear to
> > work with kmail2 properly.
> 
> > What is kmail2's expected behaviour in this action, and are there
> > logs where I can determine what it did and where it put things?
> 
> Have you solved this or do you have a workaround? It's killing me.

Yes, I solved the problem quite nicely.

I realized that KDEPIM fits all the characteristics of a second major
project (read The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks to find out
how very dangerous such project are) and is therefore unlikely to ever
work properly. So I excised KDEPIM from all my machines and am now
happily using claws-mail.

Harsh words? Sure. But I believe justified.

The final straw (after happily using kmail for 6 years) was when kmail2
started silently deleting mail folders.


-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon at gmail.com
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