[kdepim-users] kde-pim hopeless?

[Anders Lund]

Hi Russ,

On Søndag den 5. maj 2013 08:04:02, Russ Kepler wrote:
> Should I just give up and move on?  From my perspective the kontact/kmail
> system has gone from a fairly robust (if occasionally slow) system that
> dealt well with mail to a bug-ridden system that doesn't filter received
> mail properly, search received mail properly after it's filtered and sucks
> down resources like nothing I've ever seen (virtuoso-t usually is at 2GB of
> ram after a couple of days and is usually consuming one core continuously).
> 
> For a while it looked like things were getting better then suddenly it all
> regressed to worse than the starting state.  I don't know if the development
> team does any unit testing but I'm fairly sure that there's no regression
> testing, or if there is the testing is either too minor, test cases too
> trivial or the results of testing ignored.
> 
> It's PITA to move away but unless someone can give me any hope that things
> are going to get better I'm feeling that's the only choice.  I'd rather
> have a system that ran slowly than one I can't trust at all.

I had a huge amount of problem with kmail, kaddressbook mostly, after the 
upgrade to v 2.

By now, they have mostly gone - Filtering works, address completion works, and 
, no more mail loss, difficulties displaying mails... Few issues remain.

At one point, I gave up, and uninstalled kmail entirely, and used Thunderbird 
for a while, but I am really more happy with kdepim applications, which I 
reinstalled with kde 4.10 iirc.  

I switched to IMAP mail, and during all my time with kmail 2, I was NOT able 
to make it work with pop3 mail. I know some have had more luck there, though.

I recreated all my resources - mail accounts and addressbooks - a few times 
before akonadi got everything right.

You do not state the KDE version you are using, or your exact issues. But 
there have been so many issues discussed here, so if you do, someone may be 
able to help with details.

I hope you solve it quickly!

-- 
Anders
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