[Kde-pim] A sigh

[Milian Wolff]

On Saturday 28 January 2012 22:05:14 Anders Lund wrote:
> Hello kdepim heroes
> 
> With all the bad problems I have using KMail2, I thought I would look in
> ~/Mail where my maildir resource points to, and it is completely empty. So I
> started looking for my mail, and it is in
> ~/.local/share/akonadi/file_db_data.

Not true. That is only a cache. Miladir stuff is in ~/.local/share/local-mail 
to my knowledge.

<snip>

> Every time mail is checked, a lot of mails are copied an exta time (those
> that have been moved  as a result of filtering it seems) if what kmail
> shows is to trust. Maybe not so, but that is a VERY bad feeling. It is
> important to me that my mail is stored in a safe place, and that I can have
> trust in it staying there.

I reported that bug already.

> I started from scratch, with a blank directory for kmail to start from, and
> imported all my mail from archieves created by kmail (1), and added most
> configuration bit by bit, as very little was carried over by the migration,
> which also claimed to have failed. It started out so nice, and although
> getting everything imported and indexing done took a long day, I felt
> optimistic after restarting KDE to have nepomuk back in functional state
> (starting and stopping it is not fully working).
> 
> There are nice things to say about kmail2 in kde 4.8 - for example that I
> was able to import my mail at all. It also feels very fast and nice in
> usage. But the problems are unbearable - first and foremost the fact that
> mail is not stored where it is meant to, next the infinite duplication of
> messages.

see above, also note that you could - if you *really* wanted to - manually 
configure your agent in e.g. akonadiconsole to store the mail somewhere else.

> As opposed to kmail, korganizer seems to work very well compared to the
> older version, which is one of my motivations to do the update - i was very
> happy with kmail 1, although the lack of maintenace started to show.
> 
> I will see if disabling all my filters makes using kmail2 just close to
> bearable for a while, hoping that the improvements will continue, and kde
> ending up with a functional mail client again at some point in the future.

bye
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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