Kontact Touch, setup for large accounts?!

[Bernhard Reiter]

As it get more and more usable, I am facing a road block for testing 
Kontact Touch in some environments: If the Kolab Account for real data is 
quite large, e.g. 3 Gibibyte and 50 subfolder of INBOX, the current way how 
accounts are set up fails.

Currently the account setup (wizard) has an entry for Kolab Server
which will switch on interval checking and offline mode for all folders.
All folder inherit their sync and cache settings from the parent.

a) One issue is the demand of memory.
By default on the N900 there is only the space left on the /dev/mmcblk0p2 aka 
ext2 /home device, which has 2064208 KByte in total, but includes other 
stuff. 
For the HTC Touch Pro2, there is the Micro SD card, which is used by default
and it depends how much space you had put in there.

b) Initial sync and indexing speed. This can take many hours with these slow 
machines. I guess, not fully tested for obvious reasons.

c) Regular sync speed. If you happen to want a full sync.

d) Having a different sync option on INBOX and the 50 folders is hard, it 
would need to touch 50 folders to not use their parent setting in doubt.

Potential solutions:
For the N900, the dev/mmcblk0p1 on /home/user/MyDocs type vfat
device would have more space, but this does not solve the sync issues.

What about adding a Kolab Server (large) option to the account setup menu?
It could only have the groupware folders be fully cached.
It might make all the subfolder of INBOX have explicit cache/sync settings.
Or it would locally unsubscribe most of the folders, e.g. all except INBOX
and all groupware folders. Possibly do something about the intevall sync,
like INBOX fully cached and 10 minutes, so the main groupware *.default 
folders, but less for the rest.

I cannot say what the best settings for this account creation mode are,
but it would help all issue and thus get more testers.

Also helpful would be to make changing the folder options easier, like
to get a question when changing INBOX what to do with the subfolders.
And making a change on many folders easier as well, the list of a few hundered 
folders in question make changes of the list of local subscription hard
and also hurts in other places.

Best,
Bernhard

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