[kdepim-users] Offline Email

[Daniel Vrátil]

Indeed, massive amount of emails takes longer and requires bit more resources. 
We can't unfortunately tune MySQL to cover all usecases (from couple hundreds 
to hundreds of thousands) without one or the other side complaining about 
performance issues or high resource consumption.

I have a rather good performance results with PostgreSQL btw without any 
tuning btw.

For users with small amount of emails on only one or two accounts and 
relatively low traffic I would recommend SQLite as they will not suffer from 
concurrent-write issues.

Dan

On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 12:55:25 PM CEST Michael Mol wrote:
> I will note that will take a *long* time to synchronize if you have a great
> deal of email to synchronize, and it may require you to tune the MySQL
> instance Akonadi uses for system performance to be reasonable.
> 
> For example, on my system, I have these configured...it required me to point
> akonadi at a different mysqld than the one it wanted to spawn so I could
> get the configuration in place, but it works. (It's also tuned for my
> system, which has 16GB of RAM. If you have less, you'll want
> innodb_buffer_pool_size much lower.)
> 
> innodb_buffer_pool_size = 4096M
> innodb_buffer_pool_instances = 16
> innodb_flush_method=O_DIRECT
> innodb_buffer_pool_load_at_startup=ON
> innodb_buffer_pool_dump_at_shutdown=ON
> innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 2
> innodb_file_per_table
> 
> skip-innodb_doublewrite
> query_cache_type=ON
> query_cache_size=256M
> thread_cache_size=256
> 
> I also have a couple sysctl values set:
> 
> vm.dirty_background_bytes = 131072
> vm.dirty_bytes = 1048576
> 
> 
> With those, I can heavy disk activity coming from MySQL during the initial
> sync process (ten years of email, in my case), with the rest of the system
> remaining somewhat usable. Once the initial sync is complete, system load
> dies down considerably. Though a full resync of a folder with hundreds of
> thousands of messages in it will still take quite a while, it won't make
> the rest of the computer unusable.
> 
> On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 06:47:00 PM Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> > On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 9:39:29 AM CEST Mike Cleveland wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I'm wondering if Kontact email can be used offline acceptably. As in
> > > writing and responding to emails offline and then automatically sending
> > > when online.
> > 
> > Hi Mike,
> > 
> > being able to work with your emails while not connected to internet is one
> > of the core features of Kontact.
> > 
> > When setting up you IMAP account you can check "Download all messages for
> > offline use" and you will have all your emails cached locally. You can do
> > anything you want to with them like if you were online and Kontact will
> > automatically replay all the changes once you connect to internet again.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Daniel
> > 
> > > I just heard about Open365 today and am getting started, sorry for the
> > > newbie question.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Sincerely,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Mike


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