[kde-freebsd] Can't use KMail, akonadi not starting

[David Johnson]

On Monday, September 06, 2010 05:27:01 am Jerry wrote:
> I just updated to the latest version; however, the problem still
> exists. In fact, I have never been able to get the dam akonadi program
> to start. I have no idea why there is no way to permanently disable it
> use. It is/was a lousy idea on the part of the KDE team to implement
> this piece of crap. There are numerous postings regarding the failure
> of this program to work correctly on a multitude of systems.
> 
> Filing bug reports has proved futile.

I think you need to have mysql-server running. Not just installed, but 
running. This is not covered in any of the docs I have found.

I agree on the pointlessness of akonadi. I shouldn't need an industrial weight 
SQL server running just to read my email.

</rant>

-- 
David Johnson