kmail in 12.04.3 LTS won't start

[O. Sinclair]

On 08/02/14 08:00, O. Sinclair wrote:
> 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
>
you and others who dislike the akonadi/nepomuk may also consider this ppa:
https://launchpad.net/~pali/+archive/kdepim-noakonadi

I have not tried it myself but others who have report that it works as 
"old KMail" did. Clearly you then have to live with no development done 
and no bugs fixed.