[kdepim-users] yet another failed KMail2 migration

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 09:43:04 PM "O. Sinclair" <o.sinclair at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> On 25/06/2013 23:05, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > OK, my fully-workable KDE 4.6.5 KMail doesn't import into KMail2 on
> > KDE 4.10. 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. A popup
> > message says "resource kmail folders is broken" and stopping akonadi
> > and then restarting it shows a bunch of these:
> > 
> > akonadi_mixedmaildir_resource_0(6653)/akonadiresource (maildir): "User
> > canceled operation. (Folder /home/jerome/Mail/Avra does not seem to be
> > a valid email folder)"
> > akonadi_mixedmaildir_resource_0(6653)/akonadiresource (maildir):
> > "Folder /home/jerome/Mail/Avra does not seem to be a valid email
> > folder" collection: Collection ID: 48    remote ID: "sent-mail"
> > 
> >     name: "sent-mail"
> >     url: KUrl("akonadi://?collection=48")
> >     parent: 17 "Avra"
> >     resource: "akonadi_mixedmaildir_resource_0"
> >     rights: QFlags(0x1|0x2|0x4|0x8|0x10|0x20)
> >     contents mime type: ("message/rfc822", "inode/directory")
> >     isVirtual: false
> >     
> >      CachePolicy:
> >     inherit: true
> >     interval: -1
> >     timeout: 1
> >     sync on demand: true
> >     local parts: ("ENVELOPE")
> >     
> >      CollectionStatistics:
> >     count: -1
> >     unread count: -1
> >     size: -1
> > 
> > That's funny, they were valid for KMail1. Nothing I find in Google
> > tells me how to deal with either of these situations.
> 
> I always advice against using the migrator. Make a clean install,
> recreate accounts and import old email following that is what has worked
> for me.

And if that doesn't work - how do I get this giant turd to float?

Seriously, email clients have been a Done Deal for 20 years at least for 
me, and here it is 2013 and KMail2 can't see messages in folders copied 
straight from a functional KMail1 setup, and when it can see messages it 
can't show the contents, from a tree of *text files* (maildir). And all 
this for some misguided notion that we need some silly-ass binary (!) 
database to sit between us and that perfectly-good tree of *text files*, 
making KMail now as transparent as MS Exchange/Outlook. 12 hours later and 
I'm still having to use my KMail1 setup to Actually Do E-Mail.

So I guess my remaining question is "How can I use maildir with Claws-
Mail?"
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