KMail / Akonadi mess

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting John Austin <ja at jaa.org.uk>:

> On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 18:25 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>> On Saturday 27 February 2010 05:39:26 pm Mike Cloaked wrote:
>> > I am afraid that I have lost patience with this.  As far as my own
>> > view goes - mail is one of the few absolutely essential functions of
>> > any computer system/desktop/laptop/netboook, and any update that
>> > breaks a working mail setup is not excusable.  Any update to email
>> > systems should be very carefully and thoroughly checked in testing
>> > before it goes live - period.
>> >
>> > I have abandoned kmail and it would take a lot to get me back to it
>> > now. I now use Thunderbird exclusively - maybe other people will stay
>> > with kmail if that has been their favourite client up till now and
>> > hope that the problems get solved.  However I now do what Mail-Lists
>> > does and run a dovecot imap server on every machine - and run a filter
>> > to move all incoming mail from the external server (pop) to the local
>> > imap server - and that way if there is a problem with the email client
>> > then I can just switch to another client and still see all the same
>> > mail very simply indeed.  Also some email clients have better specific
>> > features than others and in the even of a serious disaster such as
>> > appears to have happened with the akonadi/nepomuk/kmail fiasco then at
>> > least I can simply close down kmail and open up Thunderbird and I am
>> > back in business - who knows how many people may never return to kmail
>> > after their experiences this week?


I am absolutely on Mike's side on this one. I use Kmail exclusively  
and only after extensive testing, it has the features I want and use  
and has always been solid. But it HAS TO WORK. Full time, all the  
time, I live by my mail. I have been able to use the workaround Anne  
Wilson pointed me to but that is one session only, if I quit kmail and  
start it again I'm back at square zero. I'm writing this using my  
webmail client because my system will come to its knees if I fire up  
kmail. Changing clients is a HUGE pain in the ass and there seem to  
have been no subsequent updates that have any relevance. Extremely  
disappointing and I still don't have access to my addressbook, even  
after trying to follow up on tips presented in other threads.

Dave

>>
>> I am yet to see any problem with KMail/akonadi/nepomuk on this fully updated
>> F12/64bit/KDE. Everything works as expected, and my KMail experience has
>> actually improved since KDE4.4  update came out. It starts faster, is more
>> responsive, and font size choices are more eye-friendly.
>>
>> The fiasco you talk about seems to have hit only a couple of  
>> people. My guess
>> is that this has to do something with your own (customized?)
>> environment/system/mysql/whatever, and you have hit some untested corner-
>> case... In general KMail in KDE4.4 apparently Just Works.
>>
>> This very e-mail is being written in KMail. ;-)
>>
>> Best, :-)
>> Marko
>>
> Hi
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> There is most definitely a problem somewhere with kmail but appears to
> be non-fatal for me
>
> After a reboot when opening an email file a message saying Akonadi
> is being started followed by a popup about Nepomuk (attached)
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> After that kmail still seems to view email files OK which is all I use
> it for.
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> I am using fully update F12
> Linux fuerte 2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Feb 19 18:55:03
> UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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> KDM and XFCE
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