On Wednesday 30 November 2011 12:28:21 Lukas Middendorf wrote: > Hi, > > I started with a clean config, so I can't say much about migration. But it > still is far from flawless. > > Creating new imap accounts with identities is really a pain. The account > wizard should be in the settings, not in "Tools". I created three imap > accounts with corresponding Identities by hand before I found it. And even > with the account wizzard, you have to set the folders for "sent", "drafts" > and "trash" manually. > Hi, Have you ever looked into kmail2rc? I have 44 folder entries in there for 17 real folders in kmail2. Not really funny and this can't be good IMHO. Martin Kho > At the beginning I got errors about the "Local Folders". They only stopped > after I removed the Akonadi ressource and restarted everything. The > ressource was added again automatically, but the one test message I put in > there was lost in the process. I hope the same thing does not also happen > during a migration with real mail in the folders. > > Now to the things that still don't work properly: > > * I can't get Kmail2 to check for new mails on start, although I have > selected it in the options. I still have to wait for the regular check > intervall to pass. > > * Sometimes mails I have read on an imap account become unread again (or > even undeleted) after the next mail check. I have to manually mark the mail > as read again afterwards. > > * Sometimes I can not read mails for an account and I get a message like > "can not fetch mail in offline mode". I don't know why it thiks I'm > offline, but it works again after selecting "Work Offline" and "Work > Online" in "File". > > * "Allow this time" for kdewallet is no longer feasible. kmail1 asked one > time on start, with kmail2 I now get one dialog per account. > > I think I'll give reverting to kmail1 (using my old kmail1 config) a try. > > Regards, > > Lukas > > On Tuesday 29 November 2011 23:39:24 Roy Dragseth wrote: > > I've been following the threads about the problems with Kmail2 and was > > kinda worried before upgrading to F16. And right enough, I had two > > days of post- traumatic flashbacks to the KDE3-KDE4 transition, but > > after som trial and error I've found it rather good. Some quirks, > > sure, but in my experience they are more related to akonadi and kwallet > > than Kmail itself: > > > > o akonadi doesn't like suspend/resumes on my laptop. I need to restart > > it every time. After a akonadi restart kmail can read mail again, if > > you don't restart kmail will hang and show the "Fetching folder...." > > screen forever. > > > > o sometimes the kwalletd will bomb out (claiming to be open, but contain > > no user/passwd info) and thus kmail will hang on fetching mail. A > > Disable kwallet - Apply - Enable kwallet - Apply cycle in System > > Settings will bring things back into order again. > > > > o often the Next/Prev Message in the Go menu are grayed out and you > > cannot jump to the next message with the keyboard. Selecting another > > message or folder with the mouse brings things back in order again. > > > > Trying to convert the Kmail1 mail caches was a no-go, I deleted all > > local > > caches and setup everything fresh. I'm using imap exclusively and do > > all > > filtering with procmail on the server side so it didn't matter, this > > might not be an option for people using local mail folders... > > > > So, all in all, kmail2 was better than feared for my use. > > > > Thanks for all the good work done by the maintainers, > > r. > > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list > kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
