Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.0) Installed from: SuSE RPMs OS: Linux SuSE Linux 9.3 KDE 3.5.0 (updated from 3.4.3) SuSE-RPMs Cyrus IMAP After upgrading from 3.4.3 to 3.5.0 some settings got lost: 1) I assigned (on 3.4.x) an IMAP-Folder "Gesendet" as the Sent-Folder. After upgrading the folder isn't used anymore by kmail. Instead the _local_ folder "Versandte Nachrichten" is used without any complain about! When going to "Settings->Config Kmail" and choosing the identity, now Kmail complains about the "missing folder for sent mail" (and drafts too). But - the folder is still there an accessable. After manually reassigning(!!) the two folders, all seems ok. 2) All ordering information in the folders are gone. I order most (not all) folders on the date, descending. After the upgrade this settings are lost, all folders (seem) unsorted. I manually have to reassign the ordering by clicking on the row title. Settings for "show sender or recepient" are also gone. 3) In all folders every mail now has the two "?"-flags beside the subject line. This disappears (like expected) after viewing/opening the mail. But this has to be done for _every_ mail in the folder manually. For me as "one-person" this isn't catastrophic (but displeasing as i have more than 90 folders an about 30'000 mails). But in the next time i have to upgrade about 100 user accounts. This is impossible when the old settings from 3.4.x are not honored or converted.
How did you upgrade? I just did the same and _no_ settings were lost.
With YaSt and the RPMs provided by Novell-SuSE.
Upgraded another box (SuSE 9.3). Point 1) and 2) occured too. Point 3) didn't. As 4) i forgot to note: 4) All keybindings got lost. I created some shortcuts (f.e. mark as read was "g", deleting was "d", delete all was Ctrl-d and so on). All this shortcuts are lost after upgrading. This occured on both boxes.
5) The per folder setting "Include this folder in email check" (german translation is: "Diesen Ordner bei Prüfung einbeziehen") got also los.
Additional info for above: ALL folders are set to the default with "Include this..." is checked. All previously unchecked (=excluded) folders are now checked again.
Do you use a Courier IMAP server? When I upgraded from kmail 3.4.3 to kmail 3.5.0, where IMAP "prefix" changed to "namespace", now kmail moved all my folders under inbox. Because of this, all of their settings and cached headers were lost. (Actually, it didn't move them until I clicked ok in the incoming account dialog. Until then, it just crashed whenever I tried to check my mail.)
I just fixed a bug which resulted in loss of folder settings in some circumstances (index file rebuilt on startup). This doesn't account for all the behaviors described here, but it might be the reason for 5); well, unless it happened on -all- folders; the "folder config being reset" bug was more of an accidental thing.
None of the releases is supported anymore