[kdepim-users] kmailrc non-configuration data?

[Martin Bernreuther]

Hello,

I know this is not the developer mailing list, but I'm pretty sure that
there're quite a few KMail experts around here as well...

I'm struggling with a quite unstable OpenSUSE 11.4 KDE 4.6.5 and Kontact 4.4.11 environment,
where kmail sometimes freezes and has to be manually killed.
(This is frustrating and I'm glad that I stuck to an old KDE3.5 at work, which is quite stable...)
But kmail also might get killed, if a session is ended without stopping kmail before.

I realized that my kmail configuration got corrupted and I
found entries in ~/.kde4/share/config/kmailrc or emailidentities,
which caused a strange behaviour of kmail.
Recently emailidentities contained e.g.
 Drafts=340
 Fcc=343
 Templates=337
instead of
 Drafts=drafts
 Fcc=sent-mail
 Templates=templates
but I don't know where that came from...


Write access to a configuration file is only necessary,
if the settings are changed by the user. However
$ stat ~/.kde4/share/config/kmailrc
will e.g. show a modification time, which
seems to be more related to the last server access.
A home directory might run out of disc space or quota
and it is also critical, if you try to write files then...

Looking inside kmailrc, there are entries
like TotalMsgs or StorageQuotaUsage (for Folders),
which seems to get updated every time, when kmail
checks the mail servers.
Is this really *configuration* data? (or caching data)
If not: why is this stored in a config file then?


Thank you,
	Martin



P.S.:
Is it critical that .local/share/akonadi/akonadi*.error.old tells me

D-Bus session bus went down - quitting

all the time? After I re-enabled Nepomuk (why do I need that?)
some other akonadi complaints stopped at least.
Is there a GUI for the akonadi configuration or is it necessary to
edit the files at ~/.config and ~/.kde4/share/config/.?
Can I get around akonadi using kmail 1.13.7?

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Martin Bernreuther	MartinBern at web.de

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