On Saturday 30 May 2015 16:43:13 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 30 May 2015 12:49:51 Mick wrote: > > On my laptop which has stayed on Kmail-1 I have this: > --->8 > > > Have a look here for more details and warnings: > > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/KDEPIM-4.7_upgrade > > Many thanks Mick - that's very helpful. > > > I expect that sooner or later bitrot will catch up with Kmail-1 and it > > will > > stop working. I dread for this happening, but I will not move to Kmail-2 > > until then. > > I don't blame you, and I wish I hadn't either. I'll see if it's possible to > go back.
Well, it did look promising right up to the last gasp. I put those package.mask entries in, and I found I needed a couple of package.use entries as well, and then everything went suspiciously well. Portage downgraded several packages and recompiled several others, and I was ready to go. At this point I must put in a word of commendation for portage: it handled this major regression with aplomb throughout. That is one professional program. I created a new user (this is now really tedious), started KMail-1 and imported 14000-odd messages from the old KMail-2 - and in a fraction of the time that KMail-2 takes for the same task. Great! I thought. Then I found there was no inbox to copy its e-mails into, and I couldn't copy the folder because one existed already - I just couldn't see it. I think I remember it disappearing once or twice before in the days of KMail-1. Anyway, I couldn't see a way forward so I've reverted to the original KMail-2 pro tem. Maybe I'll have another go if I remember the way out of having no inbox. Anyway, thanks Mick for steering me the way I wanted to go. -- Rgds Peter
