[kdepim-users] [Kde-pim] KMail - Phase 2

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Dienstag, 8. Oktober 2013, 18:00:22 schrieb Carsten Grohmann:
> Hi KMail Developer,

Hi Carsten!

> I've started using KMail more than ten years ago. The old version of KMail
> fits my requirements fully. But my relationship to KMail has changed after
> an automatic update to KDE 4.10 few weeks ago.

Please note that this the the mailing list to coordinate development of 
KDEPIM. The user mailing list is kdepim-users at kde.org.

I answer as a user to save devs some time. I suggest continuing this on the 
users mailing list (CC added).
 
> I selected the SQLite based approach during the migration process from KMail
> 1 to KMmail 2.

I suggest to you to use MySQL as it has been more widely tested. PostgreSQL 
may work as well, but use Akonadi 1.10.3 and up with it. Still best tested is 
MySQL. I do not know the state of the SQLite backend, there have been time 
were I read recommendations against using it.

[1]Akonadi 1.10.3 – with PostgreSQL fix
http://www.progdan.cz/2013/10/akonadi-1-10-3-with-postgresql-fix/
 
> Now I've observed several issues:
> 1) duplicate incoming emails

There have been various reports about such an behavior, which may be 
dependedant on filtering issues.

I do not have it personally, but I suggest asking in kdepim-users about it.

> 2) outgoing email are not removed from outbox, but they are still in sent
> folder

Never heard about this one.

> 3) Wrong message size is shown sometimes (e.g.
> http://www.carstengrohmann.de/kmail/kmail_size.png)

Whats wrong with it? Isn´t the JPEG 2,9 MiB? Kmail may show the Base64 encoded 
size of it, thus somewhat larger than the original.

> 4) KMail stalls very often (e.g.
> http://www.carstengrohmann.de/kmail/kmail_stalling.png)

Do you really need to wait for something to happen in that cause or is it just 
displaying this from time to time? I do not give much about the progress 
reports.

Anyway, it would be nice to know which processes do some work, maybe some 
state information from Akonadiconsole application. And it may help to 
temporarily disable mail indexing in Systemsettings. Especially upon migration 
it can take up a lot of resources. I enabled it after Akonadi has built up its 
own database.

> This trouble causes me to rethink my demands to an email client. KMail has
> entered stage two "Change it" of the three stages of software usage. The
> stages are "Love it", "Change it" and "Leave it".

Carsten, whether you leave KMail or not is entirely your decision. I don´t 
think it announcing that you might leave it will give your informal bug 
reports any higher priority.

I can understand your frustration. I had quite some issues myself after 
migration and still think KDEPIM and Akonadi, especially KMail related parts 
of KDEPIM and Akonadi need further polishing.
 
> What information do you need to solve this issues and get KMail working with
> SQLite?

I would start with providing proper bug reports at bugs.kde.org. One for each 
problem you observe. But search for duplicates first.

Beware that it may take some time tough till someone tends to it. KDEPIM and 
Akonadi sure could use some development help. But the quite few developers do 
what they can to improve it.

> My setup is:
>  - KMail 4.10.5 as provided by Debian testing
>  - Emails are stored locally in ~/Mail
>  - Akonadi uses SQLite
>  - 2 POP3 mailboxes
>  - no IMAP configured

What is your filtering setup?

I use KMail SC 4.10 with some base KDEPIM and KDE stuff from KDE SC 4.11 and 
Akonadi 1.10 and it works quite nicely. I am still using some work-arounds 
regarding filtering due to a wierd data loss issue with my CRM114 spam filter 
rules I had, that I wasn´t able to reproduce last week with a test setup, but 
aside from that KMail handles a rather large and several small POP3 accounts 
quite fine.

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