Sounds like you need to try a few things out on a second backup in a test environment. Needless to say, with KDE having so many problems, for such a long time, I would be concerned about using it in production. Sounds like KDE is not up to par in development and support. Not that I don't like KDE, but Gnome seems a lot more stable these days.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Jeff Lasman <jpli...@nobaloney.net> wrote: > On Thursday 20 May 2010 11:22:14 am David Kaiser wrote: > > > Are you saying that kmail has a specific flavor of maildir or some > > deviation that makes it different than the standard "Maildir/" > > approach used by everyone else? > > It's not so much the directory format than it is the index system. And I > don't know if the index system will work or not. > > > Oh wow, I just found it discussed here: > > http://wiki.mutt.org/?ExtendedMaildirFormat There's the > > "Extended" format used by everyone else, and there's the way Kmail > > did it. (I guess I'm really glad I didn't ever use Kmail...) > > That's not the biggest issue; though it would be tedious to reorder the > directory format's, it's not necessarily hard. > > The problem is not knowing what's going to happen to the indexes. > > Thanks! > > > I highly recommend using an IMAP server against your Maildir content, and > > having all your mail clients interact with your mail spool over IMAP. > > This would prevent the case of having local clients store things in > > arbitrarily deviated formats. > > > > Does Kmail support IMAP? If so, you could install dovecot, setup a > > proper Maildir on your server, and just drag/n/drop everything from > > Kmail's local maildir into the server one? > > I could easily set up IMAP, using either a mailstore in my datacenter or > locally; the problem is what happens if the indexes don't work. If I > delete > them and let systems start over I believe I lose a lot of metadata. > > I've already started to go through my mailboxes to figure out what metadata > I > really need. > > Jeff > -- > Jeff Lasman > Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 > Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only > Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
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