[kdepim-users] yet another failed KMail2 migration

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 11:53:34 AM Andras Mantia <amantia at kde.org> 
wrote:
> Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 05:58:00 AM Maurice <maurice at bcs.org.uk>
> > 
> > wrote:
> >> On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:05:13 -0600, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> >> >  I copied all the right files into place, ran kmail-migrator and
> >> >  had
> >> > 
> >> > no errors reported. I opened KMail and though it sees my folder
> >> > structure, it doesn't show any emails in the folders.
> >> 
> >> I've had no problem migrating from earlier versions of KMail to 4.10.
> >> 
> >> I just copied my old /mail directory into ~/mail, and told KMail to
> >> map its 'Local folders' onto that.
> >> 
> >> KMail picks that up and runs with it - though when it first takes
> >> that directory over it will need quite some time to index the files,
> >> possibly with nothing to be seen in the folders in the meantime.
> >> 
> >> N.B. I use POP, so do not know if the above approach works with IMAP.
> > 
> > How long should I wait for 1.3G of mail to be indexed on a 6-core cpu
> > with 32M of RAM? Perhaps I am not waiting long enough for the
> > indexing process to complete before I touch anything.
> 
> What do you mean indexing? If you copied the mails and pointed the Local
> folders (maildir agent) to them and issued a sync,  it could take a
> while, but that is more a magnitued of (tens of) minutes, not hours or
> days. While this is done, you can't read mail that were not put in the
> cache.
> 
> If you talk about nepomuk indexing for search, that could take much
> more, but you can access the mails.

I mean whatever it is that KMail does before mails are visible from ~/Mail. 

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