kmail in 12.04.3 LTS won't start

[O. Sinclair]

On 08/02/14 05:12, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> We went through this last july when I first tried to migrate to 12.04 LTS,
> and AFAICR I never got an answer that changed anything then.  And its a
> show stopper for me unless I can figure out how to make claws-mail either
> import or see the kmail, mostly maildir directories.  It does see the
> folders, but they are empty as far as claws-mail is concerned.
>
> The kmail error is
> Could not create inbox resourceId:2
>
> Video is close to totally useless here, so I swapped drives and rebooted to
> 12.04.3 LTS again, did the full update catchup, hundred files or so, then
> poked around in the prefs and found a color scheme my eyes could tolerate,
> and Oxygen with that over bright cyan halo around everything sure ain't it.
>
> Fired up firefox, all the news site videos I tried to play worked well, so
> that alone makes it worth while to pursue the upgrade.
>
> I had previously copied, back in 7/2013 the full $HOME/Mail tree to the new
> drive thinking that ought to make the new kmail at least run, but while I
> own the whole $HOME tree, its all no permissions or similar.
>
> So what is the next thing to check?  And what the heck IS resourceId: 2
> talking about?
>
I would have a look at the "import manually" part of this page:
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/OneiricOcelot/Final/Kubuntu/Kmail2

I remember renaming my mail folder to something like oldmail, starting a 
completely "empty" KMail, set up accounts and then import the old mails.

Regards
Sinclair