Kmail2 quite usable.

[Martin Kho]

On Wednesday 30 November 2011 12:28:21 Lukas Middendorf wrote:
> 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.
> 

Hi,

Have you ever looked into kmail2rc? I have 44 folder entries in there for 17 
real folders in kmail2. Not really funny and this can't be good IMHO.

Martin Kho


> 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.
> 
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