Bug#815211: kontact: kMail import of old kmail dir fails
Package: kontact
Version: 4:4.14.10-2
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
After starting kontact/kMail none of my existing e-mails were visable
My mail dir is directly under my home dir as I've had problems in the pas with kde/kmail
destroying mu archived mails so everything is now under /home/<myname>/Mail
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
I moved the Mail directory sideways (Mail-old) and removed all the kmail/contact config from
~/.kde ~/.local etc and restarted kontact clean and created a basic config
Then created a new sub-folder to import the old kMail content & started the import
* What was the outcome of this action?
My old archived email to be imported
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I keep seeing the following dialog
Error: Could not add message to folder new. Reason: Unknown collection for '279'.
There are THOUSANDS of these messages & no way to say YES to all or figure out what is wrong/broken
I'm concerned that e-mails from my old Mail folder will not be imported
Is there a way for me to export my saved data to another format (Evolution, IceDove, Other???)
ias I'm really starting to worry that kMail/kontact is no longer a safe place for me to store my e-mails
Destroying/loosing user data is IMHO a really bad thing :(
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages kontact depends on:
ii kde-runtime 4:15.08.3-1+b1
ii libc6 2.21-7
ii libkcmutils4 4:4.14.14-1+b1
ii libkdecore5 4:4.14.14-1+b1
ii libkdepim4 4:4.14.10-2
ii libkdepimdbusinterfaces4 4:4.14.10-2
ii libkdeui5 4:4.14.14-1+b1
ii libkdewebkit5 4:4.14.14-1+b1
ii libkio5 4:4.14.14-1+b1
ii libkontactinterface4a 4:4.14.10-1
ii libkparts4 4:4.14.14-1+b1
ii libkpimidentities4 4:4.14.10-1
ii libkpimutils4 4:4.14.10-1
ii libqt4-dbus 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5
ii libqtcore4 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5
ii libqtgui4 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5
ii libqtwebkit4 2.3.4.dfsg-6
ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-8
Versions of packages kontact recommends:
ii akregator 4:4.14.10-2
ii kaddressbook 4:4.14.10-2
ii kmail 4:4.14.10-2
ii knotes 4:4.14.10-2
ii korganizer 4:4.14.10-2
Versions of packages kontact suggests:
pn gnokii <none>
ii kjots 4:4.14.10-2
ii knode 4:4.14.10-2
ii ktimetracker 4:4.14.10-2
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