[Kde-pim] KDEPIM-2 from KDE SC 4.10.2 - first impressions

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hi!

Finally I migrated. It worked quite well over all, but I also hit from 
issues that may keep casual users from using it:

[kmail2] [Bug 318234] New: KMail sometimes does not update source folder 
view on move or mark operations unless restarted
https://bugs.kde.org/318234

Seems to be related to Akonadi / Nepomuk being too busy with other stuff.


[Akonadi] [Bug 318224] New: Tries to insert existing entries into database
https://bugs.kde.org/318224

I have redone the Akonadi + Nepomuk databases once again since then, after I 
also got a scary "Resource Lichtvoll already exists" popup once in a while, 
while I am sure I just created this mail dir resource *once*.


[Akonadi] [Bug 318227] New: Data loss on restarting Akonadi to get it 
responsive again
https://bugs.kde.org/318227

I know in hindsight, that this wasn´t such a hot idea, but still it should 
not lead to data loss. But anyway, this might need to be closed, cause I 
clicked on "Abort activity" for a resource before and this might have been 
dangerous.

I "fixed" this by deleting last seen uid from ~/.kde/share/config/akonadi_pop* 
and having it redownload all that mail, which led to:


[Akonadi] [Bug 318233] New: Remove duplicates takes lots of time and then 
doesn´t remove the duplicates anyway
https://bugs.kde.org/318233



As said, I can deal with those. My first impression is that expecially the 
feeding of mail data into Nepomuk via the Akonadi Nepomuk Feeder creates 
responsive issues which I wouldn´t expect on a ThinkPad T520 with dual corse 
Sandybridge i5-2520M mobile processor and Intel SSD 320.

I now let it sit at the state:

Akonadi Nepomuk Feeder:
Nepomuk is not operational: Nepomuk is not running

(while is currently indexes files and thus for sure is running.)

Once Nepomuk finished the mails I will dare to restart the agent. Anyway, 
thats another issue:






I use the following setup:

1) I had all mails in ~/Mail

2) I moved all recent mails from ~/Mail to a newly created BTRFS subvolume 
~/.Mail so that I can snapshot it. I moved all the archived mails to 
~/.Mail-Archiv, as these are mbox folders.

3) Then I let the migrator run so that it puts my account information into 
kmail2rc.

4) For each POP3 account I use I created an extra maildir agent pointing it 
at the maildir and then selecting "Synchronize All" in Akonadiconsole. Thus 
for my main account Lichtvoll I gave it ~/.Mail/Lichtvoll as maildir 
directory for example:

drwx------ 1 martin martin        18 Apr 11 08:33 Lichtvoll
drwx------ 1 martin martin      4106 Apr 11 17:28 .Lichtvoll.directory
-rw------- 1 martin martin   4312743 Apr 11 08:33 .Lichtvoll.index
-rw------- 1 martin martin     33909 Apr 11 08:33 .Lichtvoll.index.ids

For local mails I created:

drwx------ 1 martin martin        18 Jan  2 11:36 Lokal
drwxr-xr-x 1 martin martin       528 Apr 11 09:50 .Lokal.directory

and copied all the local mail folders into that.

5) I imported my filter rules back to this new setup, set inboxes for mail 
download to the right top level maildir directories and so on.


Size of setup:

martin at merkaba:~> find ~/.Mail | wc -l
431234
martin at merkaba:~> du -sh ~/.Mail
6,5G    /home/martin/.Mail


I will continue to report anything I see, cause I think its these rough 
edges that lead to the impression that Akonadi is fragile.

I do not expect to receive help on the developers list and ask for help on 
users mailing list where I like to receive help. As for now I think I can 
deal with those issues, since they are now known to me. Just wanted to 
provide a summarized feedback of the issues I had within the first two days 
of usage which gave me the impression that it still needs some polishing for 
robustness and responsive user interaction, but is about to be getting 
there.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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