Beware of KDEPIM 4.4.93 in kde-unstable

[Neal Becker]

Michal Hlavinka wrote:

> On Friday 03 of September 2010 11:59:39 Radek Novacek wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have just a small warning for users of kde-redhat repo.
>> 
>> If you installed kde 4.5.0 (or 4.5.1) from kde-unstable and let this
>> repository enabled, the new kdepim (4.4.93) will arrive to you as an
>> update. It is NOT stable release and MAY corrupt your PIM data (e-mails
>> etc.).
>> 
>> You should be aware that this can happened when you're using _unstable_
>> repo, but I think many people enabled unstable repo just for kde 4.5.*
>> (like me) and don't want to risk to lost their PIM data (like me).
> 
> I've unintentionaly updated kdepim, but I'd give it a try anyway, so no
> problem with this.
> 
> It took "only" 1.5 hour with migrating dialog, then dialog dissappeared
> and akonadi processes were taking over 60 % cpu for another 1.5 hour (I
> have nepomuk indexing disabled). Unfortunatelly 1 migration of 10 accounts
> failed and it took another 1 hour to fix it:
> - I got funny report that it can't connect to server, because my password
> is wrong and error was:
>    "SASL(0): successful result:"
> nothing more
> 
> - then it allows you to change configuration/password of the account -
> I've changed it, but change did not happen at all. I had to change
> .kde/share/config/kmailrc by hand and replace imaps:SSL+PLAIN
> authentication to imap:STARTTLS+PLAIN
> 
> - it required also changing mail server configuration, luckily it was one
> of the servers I administer (imap was not allowed there, only imaps)
> 
> but now it seems working somehow:
> - meesage tags are gone
> - emails are not marked as read after displaying - opening configuration
> re- checking checkbox fixed this
> - number of unread emails in folder list is not changing

I've got lots of mailing lists, using dimap.  
<sarcasm>
Can't wait to try this migration
</sarcasm>