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

Andras Mantia amantia at kde.org
Thu Sep 29 09:52:51 BST 2011


Robin Atwood wrote:

> On Wednesday 28 Sep 2011, Andras Mantia wrote:
>> Andras Mantia wrote:
>> > Once you have the maildir fixes (I hope to port the fixes to 4.7.2, but
>> > latest they will be in KDE 4.8), you could just create a Maildir
>> > account in KMail and point it to your Mail folder. Then a synchronizing
>> > will import all your mail (and get a coffee/tea, it will take time
>> > until it reads the headers of 12GB mails).
>> 
>> All but one maildir fix is now in 4.7 branch, so expect a better maildir
>> support in KDE 4.7.2. :)
>> The one missing is a small performance improvement, but unfortunately
>> cannot be backported as requires an API addition in the libraries.
>> Some other goodies were also backported.
>> Note, that for best experience and to see all the bug fixes, you will
>> need a new akonadi server as well (either master or the upcoming 1.6.2
>> release).
> 
> Excuse me for jumping in, but what is the state of classic mbox support?
> Last time I tried KMail2 it was a bit of a mess.

Sorry, as I'm not an mbox user, I can't comment about the status, althoug I 
know it got some bugfixes at the last PIM sprint.

Andras

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