Kmail2 quite usable.

[Lukas Middendorf]

Hi,

I started with a clean config, so I can't say much about migration. But it 
still is far from flawless.

Creating new imap accounts with identities is really a pain. The account 
wizard should be in the settings, not in "Tools". I created three imap 
accounts with corresponding Identities by hand before I found it. And even 
with the account wizzard, you have to set the folders for "sent", "drafts" and 
"trash" manually.

At the beginning I got errors about the "Local Folders". They only stopped 
after I removed the Akonadi ressource and restarted everything. The ressource 
was added again automatically, but the one test message I put in there was 
lost in the process. I hope the same thing does not also happen during a 
migration with real mail in the folders.

Now to the things that still don't work properly:

* I can't get Kmail2 to check for new mails on start, although I have selected 
it in the options. I still have to wait for the regular check intervall to 
pass.

* Sometimes mails I have read on an imap account become unread again (or even 
undeleted) after the next mail check. I have to manually mark the mail as read 
again afterwards.

* Sometimes I can not read mails for an account and I get a message like "can 
not fetch mail in offline mode". I don't know why it thiks I'm offline, but it 
works again after selecting "Work Offline" and "Work Online" in "File".

* "Allow this time" for kdewallet is no longer feasible. kmail1 asked one time 
on start, with kmail2 I now get one dialog per account.

I think I'll give reverting to kmail1 (using my old kmail1 config) a try.

Regards, 

Lukas

On Tuesday 29 November 2011 23:39:24 Roy Dragseth wrote:
> I've been following the threads about the problems with Kmail2 and was kinda
> worried before upgrading to F16.  And right enough, I had two days of post-
> traumatic flashbacks to the KDE3-KDE4 transition, but after som trial and
> error I've found it rather good.  Some quirks, sure, but in my experience
> they are more related to akonadi and kwallet than Kmail itself:
> 
> o akonadi doesn't like suspend/resumes on my laptop.  I need to restart it
> every time.  After a akonadi restart kmail can read mail again, if you don't
> restart kmail will hang and show the "Fetching folder...." screen forever.
> 
> o sometimes the kwalletd will bomb out (claiming to be open, but contain no
> user/passwd info) and thus kmail will hang on fetching mail.  A Disable
> kwallet - Apply - Enable kwallet - Apply cycle in  System Settings will
> bring things back into order again.
> 
> o often the Next/Prev Message in the Go menu are grayed out and you cannot
> jump to the next message with the keyboard.  Selecting another message or
> folder with the mouse brings things back in order again.
> 
> Trying to convert the Kmail1 mail caches was a no-go, I deleted all local
> caches and setup everything fresh.  I'm using imap exclusively and do all
> filtering with procmail on the server side so it didn't matter, this might
> not be an option for people using local mail folders...
> 
> So, all in all, kmail2 was better than feared for my use.
> 
> Thanks for all the good work done by the maintainers,
> r.