<html><head></head><body style="zoom: 0%;"><div dir="auto">akonadi is junk, abandonware. we are stuck with it but it has no champion. a bad situation. switch to postgres and restart it twice every day and you will be able to use kontact. a fine trade.<br><br></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote" >On 12 Dec 2019, at 14:07, Mathias Homann <<a href="mailto:mathias.homann@opensuse.org" target="_blank">mathias.homann@opensuse.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="blue">Hi all,<br><br>why is kdepim / akonadi such a high maintenance system?<br><br>I mean seriously, sometimes it feels i spend twice as much time keeping <br>akonadi happy and working than i spend actually reading email or working with <br>addressbook or calendar. And I'm subscribed to a lot of openSUSE mailing <br>lists, so that says something.<br><br>Here's a choice selection of hoops that akonadi and/or kdepim places in front <br>of me to hop through:<br><br>- sometimes the webdav ressource forgets its configured username, password, <br>and server url for no reason. when that happens there is NO indication that it <br>happened, other than calendar entries that I created with some other tool, <br>e.g. on my phone, do not show up in kontact. So by now I am trained to check <br>wether the nextcloud connection still works before creating a calendar entry.<br><br>- i have a "lost+found" folder in my mail, that contains unreadable headers of <br>about 300 emails from as far as two years back. the folder is permanently <br>offline, so I can't do anything about it. I also can't find that folder <br>anywhere on my harddisk.<br><br>- sometimes when i move emails from one folder to another the mails do get <br>moved on the imap server, but in kmail they stay behind in the source folder <br>and no amount of akonadictl restart and/or restarting kontact convinces the <br>system that the mails have been moved<br><br>- several of the ressources akonadi uses fail to understand the kde typical <br>"file://" urls for folders. as a result i have a lot of folders under ~/.local <br>and/or ~/.share and/or ~/.config that start with "file://" as the name.<br>Common factor here seems to be that all these are maildir folders used by <br>akonadi to store stuff, for example knotes notes.<br><br>- "empty all trashcans" only works on the trashcan in the account that you <br>have selected, and then only when you are actually looking at that trash <br>folder, and then only when you are lucky.<br><br>- sending mails leaves copies of the mails in local-folders/outbox even though <br>the mails are properly put into the sent folder for the account that sent <br>them.<br><br>now the advocatus diaboli raises his head and asks: if other pim-like apps <br>(thunderbird) can do all this without a "middleware" like akonadi, and do it <br>right, what is the point of akonadi?<br><br>And YES i AM ranting.<br><br>Sorry, had to let that out.<br><br><br>Cheers<br>MH<br><br>*Mathias Homann*<br>Mathias.Homann@openSUSE.org[1]<br>telegram: <a href="https://telegram.me/lemmy98">https://telegram.me/lemmy98</a>[2]<br>irc: [lemmy] on freenode and ircnet<br>obs: lemmy04<br>*gpg key fingerprint: 8029 2240 F4DD 7776 E7D2 C042 6B8E 029E 13F2 C102<br><br>*<br><br>--------<br>[1] mailto:Mathias.Homann@eregion.de<br>[2] <a href="https://telegram.me/lemmy98">https://telegram.me/lemmy98</a><br><br><br><br></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>