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

[Andras Mantia]

Hi,

Martin Steigerwald wrote:

> So you recommend using MySQL? Or would PostgreSQL work as well?

Personally I use MySQL, that is the most tested variant. In theory 
PostgreSQL should also work, there is a developer who commits often 
PostgreSQL realated code, so I'd assume he keeps an eye on that. SQLite 
unfortunately has problems with concurrent access and can result in random 
hangs in Akonadi or in best case slow performance.

> When I find time, I would try importing my mail accounts in a VM. But I
> still use POP 3 and its a lot of data I need to copy first:

I also use POP3 a lot. :)

> 
> martin at merkaba:~> du -sh Mail
> 12G     Mail
> martin at merkaba:~> find Mail -type f | wc -l
> 411385
> 
> (The total number of mail if way larger, cause I use mbox files for
> archiving old mails.)

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).

> I already thought about migrating to IMAP before the move to KMail 2.
> Maybe that would make sense as it should easy testing of KMail 2. I think
> IMAP might be whats best supported in KMail 2 anyway.

 POP3 works just as well as IMAP in KMail2. There is nothing in KMail2 that 
is designed to work better with IMAP.
 Of course if your mail provider support IMAP, that is better to use, to 
name just one reason: to have access to the same mails from different 
computers more easily.

Andras
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