[Users] Suitability of using Claws instead of KMail ?

[Liz]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:29:18 +1000
Peter <peter777 at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> I would love to completely forget about akonadi, but after checking
> just one folder, unfortunately need to get into that db, or at the
> least synchronise things.
> 
> I checked one folder in KMail and it shows 49 messages. Counted them,
> and got 49. Then had a look at the file system and there are only 43
> messages. So if I simply use the file structure, there is the risk of
> loosing messages.  :(
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter

This whole thing has been scripted in Perl, by Paul.

Copy your Mail database somewhere else and use Paul's script, leaving
your KMail untouched.
It's a belt-and-braces system - do your conversions on your backup!

Liz