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

[Kevin Krammer]

Hi Martin,

On Saturday, 2011-09-24, Martin Steigerwald wrote:

> I am using KDE 4.6.5 and KDEPIM 4.4.11 works quite stable except for some
> quite annoying hangs now and then when trying to send a mail. The composer
> window would just sit there greyed out and nothing apparently is happening
> anymore. KMail won´t respond to clicks either except for closing the
> window when it offers me to sent as draft. Which I click then, to have an
> additional copy. But then it doesn´t appear to do anything. I sigterm or
> even sigkill it and then if I am lucky I have the mail in sent folder.

Hmm, maybe some error message or other dialog not appearing in the foreground 
but intercepting events?
Greyed out sounds like how the composer looks for example when the pinentry 
helper is asking for a signing/excryption passphrase.
Usually pops up above KMail/Composer but override window settings could 
prevent that.


> So I wonder is loosing mail with KMail 2 some experiences of very few
> users or is it more wide-spread? What about the idea to import instead of
> migrate?

Generally we would like to transform the migrator into an importer specialized 
in importing KMail1 setups, e.g. basically doing what the migrator does but in 
parallel to running KMail2, not delaying its startup.
Haven't had time to do that though.

It might help to run the migrator explicitly, i.e. not through running KMail2 
but instead invoking it manually

kmail-migrator --interactive

Basically works for me (tm) every time I test it after changes, but of course 
there could be setups that contain config/data that makes it fail but are not 
part of my test config/data.

Your setup (mboxes inside KMail's mail tree, also my setip :)) should work 
directly with the mixed maildir resource ("KMail Folders").
This resource is not as performant as the normal maildir resource yet, due to 
its higher complexity (mixed tree, KMail index file support), but hopefully 
I'll be able to incorporate the enchancements made for the maildir resource in 
time for the next 4.7.x release.

You other option is to convert the mbox folders first, e.g. using KMail1 and 
then just using the plain maildir resource.

> I am quite puzzled that so many questions easily pop up in my mind when
> all whats lying ahead is a switch from KMail 1 to KMail 2. And KMail
> basically is "just" a MUA.

It is now :)
Previously it was a MUA and an MTA and an UI equivalent of fetchmail.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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