Bug 286965

Summary:	KMail migration results in empty folders
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] Akonadi	Reporter:	Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl>
Component:	Migration	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	major	CC:	amantia, hacker, mfranz
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.7
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description Karl Ove Hufthammer 2011-11-18 22:54:00 UTC

Version:           4.7 (using KDE 4.7.2) 
OS:                Linux

I have just updated to openSUSE 12.1, and the migration of all my old KMail e-mail failed.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Here’s what I did:

1. Started KMail.
2. Got a dialogue asking me if I wanted to migrate. Answered yes.
3. *Immediately* got an error message saying that migration had failed, and that I should run ‘kmail-migrator --interactive’ manually.
4. Running the command told me that I had already run the migration.
5. A Web search told me I could delete som migration config files to get kmail-migrator to run.
6. Ran ‘kmail-migrator --interactive’, which took quite some time, but finally finished with no error message.
7. Started KMail.

Actual Results:  
The result is that all my old local folders are shown, and in a proper folder hierarchy, but everyone of them is *completely empty*. I have tried right-clicking on the folders and choosing ‘Update Folder’, but this doesn’t have any effect. For all practical purposes, all my e-mail are gone.

(BTW, my IMAP account is also shown in KMail, and seems to be working fine.)

I do have a backup of my ~ folder, which I can use to experiment with, if that’s any help.

Expected Results:  
All folders and e-mail successfully imported, with the old read/unread status kept.

OS: Linux (x86_64) release 3.1.0-1.2-desktop
Compiler: gcc

Comment 1 Graham P Davis 2011-12-09 15:09:40 UTC

I had the identical problem in openSUSE 12.1. I've switched to 11.4 and updated KDE to 4.7.3 and got exactly the same result. 

Also the migrator doesn't have a clue what state it's in. After a cancelled migrate from the dialogue window, I tried ‘kmail-migrator --interactive’ and got told "I've already done this, I'm not doing it again" - or words to that effect. Later, after what purported to be a successful migrate (but with only empty folders) a restart of kmail2 brought up the dialogue window again to ask if I wanted to migrate!

Comment 2 Denis Kurz 2016-09-24 20:41:34 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 3 Denis Kurz 2017-01-07 22:35:01 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.