KDE sucks, just use Gnome. On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Paul Saenz <forensicneoph...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
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