[Kde-pim] Akademy results: kmail-2 issues

[David Faure]

On Sunday 11 July 2010, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Sunday, 2010-07-11, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Sunday 11 July 2010, David Faure wrote:
> > > 7) Going back
> > > 
> > > And finally after a week of fighting, I went back to kmail-4.4.
> > > However this happens on every folder I open:
> > > KMFolderMaildir::indexStatus: Index
> > > "/home/dfaure/Mail/.kde-core-devel.index" out of date!
> > 
> > That's expected behavior. I'm pretty sure that this was communicated by
> > the KDE PIM developers.
> > 
> > > Does kmail-2
> > > forget to update indexes? Or does it not use indexes at all?
> > 
> > It does not use the index files anymore. The corresponding data is now
> > stored in the Akonadi database.
> 
> The MixedMaildirResource has read support for KMail's index files in order
> to preserve index data (flags and tags) when proividing access for
> Akonadi.
> 
> The validity check is basically a check for modification timestamps. As
> long as there is no change within a the folder, the index file stays valid
> and can be re-read by the resource and by KMail1.
> 
> Write support could be added but it would add another portion of ancient
> code which will have to be maintained.

OK.

No write support is fine.

But kmail-1 sometimes crashes while updating the index file, or sometimes goes 
to "fatal exit" with the error:
Could not sync index file <b>/home/dfaure/Mail/.kde-packager.index</b>: 
Resource temporarily unavailable" 

(No idea why; the file exists; maybe the fix-the-index code re-enters itself
while the dialog box about the index being out of date is up...)

Anyway, I guess fixing kmail-4.4 isn't on anyone's list.

-- 
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