From kolab-users  Fri Oct 01 14:38:40 2004
From: Stefan <stefan () organet ! com>
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 14:38:40 +0000
To: kolab-users
Subject: Recovering the mailbox within kolab and kontact
Message-Id: <200410011638.40152.stefan () organet ! com>
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Hello List,

it's working again!=20
But I have discovered a bug (or should I say a feature) in kontact - not=20
proko2!!
I'm posting to this ML because I think, developers of kontact or proko2 are=
=20
reading this ML, too!
If it's no bug, then the recovering- and syncing-procedure is documented fo=
r=20
public use.
I want to state one thing out:
I have two notebooks. On the first one, I use - since yesterday - proko2 an=
d I=20
fear it deleted all my messages on the server! I will examine that this=20
weekend. On the second machine, I'm using kontact of kde 3.3.0! Okay?
With the second machine I did the recovering.
Because I'm using a "german" kontact, I will post the menuentries in german=
,=20
too.......I'm to lazy after that recovering trip!

I restored my message base and did a=20
/kolab/bin/cyrreconstruct -rf user/username@domain.com

Every time I started kontact it deleted my messages again. Every attempt to=
=20
"recreate the index" or "rebuild the diamp cache" ended with an empty=20
mailfolder on the server.

So I did it the hard way:
I deleted my dimap cache file in .kde/share/apps/kmail/dimap and restarted=
=20
kontact. It crashed.....but I'm brave and started it again. This time it=20
runs!

Now I wanted to recreate and sync my dimap cache. I right-clicked on Inbox =
and=20
used the menu entry "Problembeseitigung im IMAP Zwischenspeicher" and there=
=20
"Zwischenspeicher neu aufbauen".
It synced _this_ folder; means all messages in this folder are in sync, but=
=20
again kontact deleted all messages in subfolders on the server. :-(
Like I've mentioned before: I'm brave!! :-)
So I copied again the subfolders from my backup into my mailbox directory a=
nd=20
did a
/kolab/bin/cyrreconstruct -rf user/username@domain.com
one more time.
I repeated the sync procedure for the next subfolder within kontact. It syn=
ced=20
this folder and again: It deleted the messages in all other subfolders. The=
=20
messages synced in the toplevel folder stayed, too.

=46rom this time on, I've copied the subfolders one by one from the backup =
into=20
my mailbox directory and reconstructed them with cyrreconstruct and synced=
=20
them within kontact! At least it worked, but.........is this the normal=20
procedure for syncing the cache?? I don't think so!
Why isn't it possible to sync the whole mailfolder in one go??

Bye, bye ......and have a nice weekend!  :-)
Stefan