Bug 150496

Summary:	Accounts backup and restore functionality through a wizard
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshan.mukhopadhyay>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bluedzins
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 2007-10-05 12:06:54 UTC

Version:           6:3.5.7-3.fc7 (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs
OS:                Linux

This feature request is to put in a wizard based functionality to backup and restore accounts configured in KMail across desktops. A typical UseCase would be that I setup and configure an account on Desktop A (for a specific OS, say Fedora 7). Then, through a wizard, I backup all data ie account metadata, account configuration data and mailboxes associated with an account to a package payload - perhaps an archive. On Desktop B, for any OS where KMail is available, I use an wizard to import the package payload from Desktop A and thus end up with the exact same mail account along with the account metadata, account configuration data and mailboxes.

Note, this is not "importing" mailboxes of a different MUA on the same machine which is an UseCase for MUA migration from something_else to KMail. This is a backup/restore across desktops.

Comment 1 FiNeX 2007-12-11 17:41:00 UTC

The backup feature of ALL the kde pim apps should be implemented. I mark this bug as duplicate of the bug 76690. Are you ok?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76690 ***

Comment 2 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 2007-12-11 18:07:20 UTC

As long as it gets implemented :) thank you.