[Kde-pim] From a users point of view ....

[Andreas Gungl]

Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2012 schrieb Anders Lund:
> Tirsdag den 28. februar 2012 21:15:52 Andreas Gungl skrev:
> > Nevertheless, the 4.8 release is IMO nearly on the same level as 4.4 once
> > the  indexing problems have been solved. And I know what I'm talking
> > about as I'm running 4.8 (on 12.1) in the office while I still use 11.4
> > at home.

Quite a challenge, so here we go (with KDE 4.8 on Opensuse 12.1):
 
> * address completion in composer is missing
- works for me with LDAP and for recently used addresses

> * filtering is broken, and filter import is broken
- (manual and IMAP) filters work, they now even mark mails as read which has 
never worked before

> * It is not possible to move many messages from folder to folder (using
> pop3/maildir)
- can't tell as I have only IMAP in the office, but it's a point which I care 
for for the usage at home

> * between mysqld, akonadi_agent_launcher (whatever that is) and kmail,
> receiving 10 messages takes > 10 seconds with > 50% cpu used by those 3
> processes
- may be related to POP, haven't seen that on IMAP

> * kmail often freezes and have to be killed for no obvious reason (during
> loading a message)
- sometimes it doesn't display a message, waiting a minute, switching to 
another message and back often solves the problem for me

> * the akonadi conflict resolving dialog from hell stays hidden, shows in
> other desktops than kmail, hidden behind other windows and generally
> should not exist, since it NEVER shows for any valid reason.
- I agree with the fact the dialog doesn't offer real help. But it shows up 
correctly for me. Usually for me KMail is the top window on a virtual screen, 
perhaps that's a difference.

> * kmail (or akonadi) deletes mail headers in some cases (messages go to
> "unknown" section and have no subject, date, from, to etc)
- haven't seen that

> * kmail (or akonadi) hides mail headers from itself - I have messages
> sitting in "unknown" but with headers intact.
- often seen in previous versions, selecting the message brought the 
information back. It might have been the date parsing problem between IMAP 
server and KMail as recently discussed in this mailing list, but I'm not sure. 
ATM KMail doesn't show "unknown" values fo me.

> ...
> ...

I agree with you about KMail still having problems. But it works for me in the 
daily usage. Of course, it's a special setup with only IMAP accounts, no POP 
involved. However I have some 100.000 messages in the accounts, so nobody 
should say, it works because of a small load only.

OTOH I do not recommend to switch a working previous version to KDE 4.8. The 
outcome might not be as stable as expected. By intention I stay with the older 
version at home. (The migration in the office was unintended and gave me such a 
lot of problems, I don't need a repetition of that.)

Best regards,
Andreas
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