Re: Upcoming KDEPIM changes in unstable (KMail, Kontact, KOrganizer, etc)

[Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Am Sonntag, 3. Juli 2016, 18:40:15 CEST schrieb Rainer Dorsch:
> On Sunday 03 July 2016 11:49:42 David Goodenough wrote:
> > On Saturday 02 July 2016 21:46:48 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer 
wrote:
> > > Currently the latest version of kdepim is available in experimental.
> > > According to our limited tests it's working way better than kdepim 4.14
> > > (more stable, more performant, less bugs). However migrating from one to
> > > the other is not a trivial process (distribution wise, hopefully not for
> > > our users).
> > > 
> > > If you are still reading, please check the full text in [link].
> > > 
> > > [link]
> > > <http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/upcoming-kdepim-changes-in-un
> > > st
> > > a
> > > ble.html>
> > > 
> > > Happy hacking!
> > 
> > Is there a migration guide so that we know what to expect (and when to
> > panic)?
> 
> Yes, that would be useful. Maybe on a wiki page, which could be updated by
> developers and advanced users...
> 
> E.g. is akonadi supposed to be migrated? Are mailbox (e.g. imap) settings
> preserved?

I wrote on this list about this before.

See my last mail in the thread "kdepim 16.04 from experimental":

lists.debian.org/1804539.YkVyMII8Xc@merkaba

Feel free to start a wiki page from this based on this.

My migration experience is outdated, as I migrated last autumn already with a 
much earlier version of the Qt/KF5 based KDEPIM and Akonadi, but for me the 
automatic migration basically worked. Still make a backup before you upgrade 
as I described in that mail.

And I wouldn´t use export/import, it never worked for me.


If you have a mixed maildir resource currently, there is one thing you could 
do: You could move any mbox based folders, if you have some, out of it, and 
then delete the resource and add a maildir resource pointing to the directory 
with the mail, if there are still in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail, I´d move them to 
~/.local/share/local-mail.

Why? As to my knowledge the pure maildir resource is better tested than the 
mixed maildir one. Although I miss it.

But anyhow, if automatic migration works nicely for you, I´d probably just go 
with it, no matter whether you have a mixed maildir resource or not.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin