How to run kmail (and Akonadi)

[George Ruinelli]

Dear all

I am looking forward to replace Outlook through Kmail at my working place, as 
I think kmail is much more efficient.

I installed KDE 4.4.0 stable with the latest gui installer.
Kmail seems to start fine, how ever I did not get Akonadi to work, as it did 
not find the MYSQL server.
After downloading it manually and extracting it into the right folder, this 
seems now to be ok, but it misses a default configuration.
Despite of that, Akonadi is not able to register on the D-BUS.
Do I have to start D-BUS daemon manually?

See below my error log.
It is a WIn XP PC with most recent updates.

George

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Akonadi Server Self-Test Report
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Test 1:  SUCCESS
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Database driver found.
Details: The QtSQL driver 'QMYSQL' is required by your current Akonadi server 
configuration and was found on your system.

File content of 'C:/Documents and 
Settings/*******/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc':
[%General]
Driver=QMYSQLg
SizeThreshold=4096
ExternalPayload=false

[QMYSQL]
Name=akonadi
User=
Password=
Options="UNIX_SOCKET=C:/Documents and 
Settings/****/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket"
ServerPath=C:/kde//bin/mysqld.exe
StartServer=true
Host=

[Debug]
Tracer=null

[QPSQL]
Name=akonadi
Host=
User=
Password=
Port=5432


Test 2:  SUCCESS
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MySQL server found.
Details: You currently have configured Akonadi to use the MySQL server 
'C:/kde//bin/mysqld.exe'.
Make sure you have the MySQL server installed, set the correct path and ensure 
you have the necessary read and execution rights on the server executable. The 
server executable is typically called 'mysqld', its locations varies depending 
on the distribution.

Test 3:  SUCCESS
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MySQL server is executable.
Details: MySQL server found: C:\kde\\bin\mysqld.exe  Ver 5.1.36-community for 
Win32 on ia32 (MySQL Community Server (GPL))


Test 4:  SUCCESS
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No current MySQL error log found.
Details: The MySQL server did not report any errors during this startup into 
'C:/Documents and Settings/********/.local/share/akonadi/db_data\mysql.err'.

Test 5:  ERROR
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MySQL server default configuration not found.
Details: The default configuration for the MySQL server was not found or was 
not readable. Check your Akonadi installation is complete and you have all 
required access rights.

Test 6:  SKIP
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MySQL server custom configuration not available.
Details: The custom configuration for the MySQL server was not found but is 
optional.

Test 7:  ERROR
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MySQL server configuration not found or not readable.
Details: The MySQL server configuration was not found or is not readable.

Test 8:  SUCCESS
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akonadictl found and usable
Details: The program 'C:/KDE/bin/akonadictl.exe' to control the Akonadi server 
was found and could be executed successfully.
Result:
Akonadi 1.2.0 (revision 1004479)


Test 9:  ERROR
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Akonadi control process not registered at D-Bus.
Details: The Akonadi control process is not registered at D-Bus which 
typically means it was not started or encountered a fatal error during 
startup.

Test 10:  ERROR
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Akonadi server process not registered at D-Bus.
Details: The Akonadi server process is not registered at D-Bus which typically 
means it was not started or encountered a fatal error during startup.

Test 11:  ERROR
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Nepomuk search service not registered at D-Bus.
Details: The Nepomuk search service is not registered at D-Bus which typically 
means it was not started or encountered a fatal error during startup.

Test 12:  SKIP
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Protocol version check not possible.
Details: Without a connection to the server it is not possible to check if the 
protocol version meets the requirements.

Test 13:  ERROR
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No resource agents found.
Details: No resource agents have been found, Akonadi is not usable without at 
least one. This usually means that no resource agents are installed or that 
there is a setup problem. The following paths have been searched: ''. The 
XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable is set to '', make sure this includes all 
paths where Akonadi agents are installed to.

Directory list is empty.

Environment variable XDG_DATA_DIRS is set to ''

Test 14:  SUCCESS
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No current Akonadi server error log found.
Details: The Akonadi server did not report any errors during its current 
startup.

Test 15:  SUCCESS
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No previous Akonadi server error log found.
Details: The Akonadi server did not report any errors during its previous 
startup.

Test 16:  SUCCESS
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No current Akonadi control error log found.
Details: The Akonadi control process did not report any errors during its 
current startup.

Test 17:  SUCCESS
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No previous Akonadi control error log found.
Details: The Akonadi control process did not report any errors during its 
previous startup.