https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257528
Summary: KMail needs complete backup and restore like Evolution
provides
Product: kmail
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Packages
OS/Version: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: major
Priority: NOR
Component: general
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Version: unspecified
OS: Linux
I have requested this many times before and the entry keeps getting deleted.
Migrating to a new machine or a new version of KDE is a massive trail of tears
for anyone that uses the KDE-PIM package. Accounts have to be manually
recreated, emails are a royal pain to transfer, and contacts are almost always
lost, if not completely, at least all of the physical address information.
The developers of Evolution solved these issues long ago. I don't like using
Evolution or the Gnome interface, but, it takes about 45 minutes to migrate to
a new version of Ubuntu using the Gnome/Evolution combination and about 2 days
to migrate the same machine to a new KDE/KDE-PIM combination due to all of the
dorking around caused by lack of backup/restore. In the last 3 years, no two
releases seem to have been even remotely compatible with address and contact
information.
This is a highly frustrating situation which seems to get completely ignored.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
migrate from 10.04 to 10.10 KUbuntu after creating email accounts and filing
hundreds of emails and contacts away.
Actual Results:
you lose a lot of stuff after wasting more than a day.
Expected Results:
a 5 minute backup and restore procedure just like Evolution has
Take a good look at Evolution
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