[Kolab-devel] Kolab-Format Upgratetool status

[Christian Mollekopf]

On Monday 18 June 2012 23.22:46 Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> On Monday, June 18, 2012 09:16:51 PM Christian Mollekopf wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > The Kolab-Format Upgratetool can currently:
> > 
> > * upgrade single mime messages of the types:
> > ** event
> > ** todo
> > ** journal
> > ** contact/distlist
> > ** note
> > ** dictionary configuration
> > 
> > * upgrade complete IMAP accounts:
> > The tool looks for kolab folders, and upgrades all v2 messages to v3
> > messages. Old messages are marked as deleted and each folder is expunged
> > after all messages have been upgraded.
> > 
> > I already prepared a patch for proxy authentication for kdepimlibs, as
> > soon
> > as that is merged, proxy authentication will also be possible.
> > 
> > Otherwise we have SSL/TLS support, various login mechanisms and NAMESPACE
> > should also be handled correctly.
> > 
> > Note that I did not implement the conversion with a different target
> > account/folder. Is that really required or can it be worked around by
> > otherwise copying the account before upgrading?
> 
> The idea is that with a second target server / user account credentials, the
> groupware data can be converted from an OpenPKG Kolab 2.3 onto a Kolab 3.0
> installation from native packages - or even a (former) Kolab 2.4 to 3.0,
> but both would be native packages anyway so the upgrade could be in-place
> rather then from one system to another system.
> 
> I suppose since the upgrade tool does not do mail, either offlineimap or
> imapsync could first take care of an initial data migration, if at all
> needed, then the upgrade tool could take care of the format change.
> 

Yep, that would keep the tool simpler, so I'll leave it at that for now.

Cheers,
Christian

> Kind regards,
> 
> Jeroen van Meeuwen
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