Bug 251455

Summary:	KMail failed to migrate sent mails
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] Akonadi	Reporter:	Unknown <null>
Component:	Migration	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde, null
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.6
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Unknown 2010-09-16 15:42:45 UTC

Version:           2.0 beta1 (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

I've just upgraded to KMail 2 and the upgrade wizard said there were no errors.
Although, I don't see my previously sent mails in KMail Folders/sent-mail. It's simply empty.
Other folders seem to be ok.

In ~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail/sent-mail/cur there are a lot of files.

To the command line KMail constantly writes these lines:
"/usr/bin/kmail(17294)" Soprano: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown - The name org.kde.nepomuk.services.nepomukstorage was not provided by any .service files"
"/usr/bin/kmail(17294)" Soprano: "QLocalSocket::connectToServer: Invalid name"

Reproducible: Didn't try




OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.34.4-0.1-desktop
Compiler: gcc

Comment 1 Björn Balazs 2010-12-13 11:53:57 UTC

Same Problem here. import of all folders is fine - only sent-mail is missing.

My sent-mail folder (/home/me/Mail/sent-mail/*) is definitely not empty (about 1.6GB of mails in there). The folder is very old and contains mails that I imported to KMail years ago from outlook and thunderbird.

This is a blocker as I really need my previously sent-mails. Please fix! Thx!

Comment 2 Björn Balazs 2010-12-13 11:55:59 UTC

My version: KMail 2.0.89, KDE Version 4.5.85 (4.6 Beta2) - running OpenSuse

Comment 3 Unknown 2011-07-13 15:26:32 UTC

I erased all of the Akonadi directories, kmail2(-migration) configurations etc.

After this I could re-start the migration process but I can still reproduce this bug. I have no sent-mails migrated at all.

Qt: 4.7.3
KDE Development Platform: 4.6.95 (4.7 RC2) "release 1"
KMail: 2.1.96
Akonadi 1.6.0

Comment 4 Unknown 2011-11-22 12:00:05 UTC

Here is the manual workaround for this grave bug:

- In KMail 1.13 right click on the Local Folders > sent mail folder and select "archive folder"
- Select the best method you want (.tar is fast, .bz2 compresses good) to save the file
- Upgrade to KDEPIM 4.7 and try to migrate…
- After you successfully started KMail, select File > Import messages > Import KMail archive file > select the "Local folders" text (and not the "sent-mail" label!) > Next

It will take a while, especially when you have a large inbox.

I hope I could help.

Comment 5 Denis Kurz 2016-09-24 20:39:40 UTC

This bug has only been reported for versions older than KDEPIM 4.14 (at most akonadi-1.3). Can anyone tell if this bug still present?

If noone confirms this bug for a recent version of akonadi (part of KDE Applications 15.08 or later), it gets closed in about three months.

Comment 6 Denis Kurz 2017-01-07 22:02:02 UTC

Just as announced in my last comment, I close this bug. If you encounter it again in a recent version (at least 5.0 aka 15.08), please open a new one unless it already exists. Thank you for all your input.