[kmail2] [Bug 377070] New: Kmail emptied inbox, all emails deleted!!!

[William L. Thomson Jr.]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377070

            Bug ID: 377070
           Summary: Kmail emptied inbox, all emails deleted!!!
           Product: kmail2
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Gentoo Packages
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: critical
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: wlt-ml at o-sinc.com
  Target Milestone: ---

KMail Version 5.4.2
KDE Frameworks 5.31.0
Qt 5.7.1 (built against 5.7.1)

This is NOT the 1st time this has happened. Every email in my inbox was deleted
for NO reason. This seems to be some issue between the emails on disk and what
ever is in the akanodi database. I am SO sick of issues with Kmail2 and email.
This whole using a db backend is NOT working and needs to end. People should
have a choice on using akonadi, mysql, and any db. Emails that are on DISK
should NEVER be deleted unless I am deleting them. Funny enough emails in my
trash remain till I empty the trash. I have lots of folders, lots of filters,
lots of emails. I have not had this problem with other folders. I have had
other issues with emails from day 1 using kmail2. I am about to go back to
gnome and evolution. Kmail is complete garbage!!!!

I am a database person. I have worked with database for years. There is NO
reason to be integrating email with a database. For all the problems I am
experience it is NOT worth any benefit on search etc. I have grep and other
fast things if I need to search. My contacts are all messed up because of
something that associates names with emails, and does it incorrectly. At ever
angle there are problems from the software trying to do things it need not.
Features that CANNOT be turned off.

This needs to stop!!! Kmail2 needs to be decoupled from this horrible mess that
is akonadi. Emails on disk should not disappear and be removed due to some
syncing or other issue that clearly comes from the database. Nothing else would
remove emails like that. I saw them flashing and re-indexing. I saw that happen
to other folders before but never lost emails. Clearly seeing stuff resulting
from integration with on disk emails into some sort of database.

I do not care what is done with akonadi, but it should NEVER delete emails as
part of its syncing operations. This is really unacceptable. I am very
displeased all around at how people are doing experimental things with software
people will heavily rely on for business, to make a living, etc.

An email client should NEVER delete emails unless a person does that or its
part of a filter etc. Such serious bugs should NEVER exist. That they result
from some database integration and some needless features is unacceptable. The
entire point of email software is to receive and store email. If it cannot do
that simple function the rest is completely pointless and moot.

The most important feature of any email client is to maintain email. No change
should ever be made to kmail that could potentially delete an email without a
users interaction, unless from a user created filter. There needs to be some
serious code review and much better QA.

This is the WORST email software I have ever used. If I did not have so many
folders, filters, etc I would switch. Plus to switch means I likely need to
switch desktops envs. Only reason I am even running kmail is I left gnome. But
I kept using evolution for a while, and wish I never migrated to kmail.

I used evolution for over a decade and NEVER once did I have any issue. Nor
with Thunderbird ever. I have been using kmail since ~2011. I have hated it
ever day since. Many on Gentoo have stopped using it including many developers
who maintain KDE on Gentoo.

I do like many aspects of kmail. But I absolutely HATE akonadi, any
integration, etc. That NEEDS to be optional seriously. This joke about rapidly
developing PIM applications etc. It is pointless. There are no other KDE PIM
based email clients. The one that was developed as an example in 2008 never
went further and there has been no others in almost a decade. Please reconsider
this direction.

Akonadi and any efforts there are NOT improving the quality of Kmail. They are
in fact making it horrible unreliable, deleting emails, corrupting others as I
have reported in other bugs. So many issues that would not exist if it was not
for this akonadi bs.  This failed experiment that is akonadi needs to come to
an end.

If kmail continues to be developed using akonadi and no option to not use a DB
backend and just stick to plain files on disk. Then I will definitely move back
to evolution or thunderbird. These sorts of problems really should not exist. I
have never experienced them or others till kmail.

Unacceptable, and needs to change radically!!!!

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