EXperiences with Kmail 2 KDE PIM 4.6 BETA 1

Hi,

I recently installed Kmail 2KDE PIM 4.6 Beta 1 and want to share my experiences and also ask some questions.

One the first start of Kmail 2 kmail-migrator kicked in and started to convert my Account to Akonadi folder by folder. This took quite a while due to my really big IMAP Account. Eventhing looked quite trustworthy for a while, but after 5 or hours the process got stuck shortly before ending. Unfortunately there was no information what to do. I hesitated in cancelling the job, since I did not know what problems it might cause. I also could not find any sign of a logfile, so that I could get a clue where the process got stuck. I had a try on getting help on IRC, but unfortunately seems like eveyone was busy. So I stop the process and started again. First by manually starting a "kmail-migrator" from konsole, which did something for quite a while, but did not give a visual feedback (neither graphical, nor on konsole). Finally I did a restart where the original migrator started again, asked me if I wanted my local cache converted or not. I wanted and to my suprise this was finished quite fast, but unfortunately Kmail did not start. Only next day after a restart I now have a running Kmail2, which is a bit confusing for me.

I assume most of the problems come from the fact that initial import did not work straight, so I did not write a bug report (yet) since I can not really provide information which could hint the cause of it.

Right now I seem to have more than one account in Kmail2

The names are:

„Local copies of Accountname“

„Accountname“

„Accountname“

I am not quite sure what to do with this and how to handel this. Since I have very much emails it is difficult to find out which of them might be the one, where all of my mail are imported correctly. I would really like to delete the others.

Then I noticed my favouvrite folders did not get imported.

Writing an Email causes an error message, asking me to insert a from. The cause of that might be related to the fact that I now have two identical SMPT-servers, both marked as standard.

Apart from that:
- Icons seem to be missing on standard-folders (Trash, SENT, Drafts, templates...).
- It seems like Kmail is even slower than before.

Would be nice, if someone could give me some advice how to find out which of the account-copies can be used and which ones I can remove.

Even though I have some problems, I have a good feeling with it. Since it still it is beta, I hope/assume the remaining problems will be fixed before release. I am mainly worrying about speed. I actually had hoped Kmail would become faster, that would be something really bad if the relase version wouldn't fix that.

Markum

Firstly, I suggest making a backup of ~/.local, ~/.config and ~/.kde4 outside of KDE itself, to ensure you do not lose precious data.

For the various account copies you have, check to see if one of the copies functions better than the others. You can then remove the duplicates safely using KMail > Settings > Configure KMail > Accounts.

Hmm,
I'm missing those icons too. Did you find a fix?

bertmanphx

bertmanphx wrote:Hmm,
I'm missing those icons too. Did you find a fix?

It is a bug (now closed) bug report (can't find the number right now). So I suppose fix is part of the beta which was released yesterday (no packages for Kubuntu yet)

Markum

Just a short info that "Copies of accountname".

This is a way to access the mails from KMail1's cache in case they couldn't be imported into the new cache correctly.

Removing those entries from KMail2's account configuration just removes this access, the mails still stay in KMail1's cache directories. Deleting the folders from the folder tree also deletes the cached mails, but of course they still remain on the server they were downloaded from.

The normal "accountname" entries are the new IMAP accessors, so if you have duplicates for those, you can remove all but one.
The ones created by migration from a cached IMAP account will also be configured to do caching, but caching can now be controlled on a per-folder level.

Cheers,
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