Bug 285937

Summary:	After Upgrade, now I have "Local Folders" and "Kmail Folders"
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Joe Biden <mailinglist>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	karl, montel
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.99.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
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Description Joe Biden 2011-11-06 21:57:26 UTC

Version:           1.99.0
OS:                Linux

After upgrade to 4.7.2, I have two "sets" of email folders, duplicated.

"Local Folders" which is what I have been using for years.

Now there is another top-level tree: "Kmail Folders" and has duplicated the "Local Folders" layout, except the inbox icon is missing and the order or folder is messed up.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Upgraded from 4.7.1 which worked perfectly fine!


Expected Results:  
Should just have one set of folders. Is my email duplicated on disk?

OS: Linux (i686) release 3.0.0-12-generic
Compiler: gcc

Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2011-12-21 17:50:22 UTC

It was translater or just "Local Folder" ?

Comment 2 Joe Biden 2012-01-31 19:55:14 UTC

It was duplicated and all messed up.

What I did so far to straighten it out more...

Deleted ALL KDE resources that pointed to Maildir folders and created JUST ONE that pointed to the Mail-old folder that my Kmail1 data/mails were in. I blew away all configuration, because kmail2 is so insanely-messed up that it didn't seem to want to start with my old, and even migrated config.

Then this left the problem of the mbox files I had. Kmail didn't even attempt to convert them, so I had to do it, manually through the "Import Messages From" menu item.

This has cleaned up the structure. Kmail still doesn't work, but this bug is DEFINITELY still there.

Comment 3 Denis Kurz 2016-09-24 18:00:55 UTC

This bug has only been reported for versions before 4.14, which have been unsupported for at least two years now. Can anyone tell if this bug still present?

If noone confirms this bug for a Framework-based version of kmail2 (version 5.0 or later, as part of KDE Applications 15.12 or later), it gets closed in about three months.

Comment 4 Denis Kurz 2017-01-07 22:06:57 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.