Goodbye for now, kmail

[O. Sinclair]

On 05/03/17 00:24, Wilhelm Boltz wrote:
> Hi Anders,
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> Am Montag, 1. Mai 2017, 17:48:51 CEST schrieb Anders Lund:
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>> Today I finally elected to install thunderbird, and remove my mail
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>> accounts from akonadi. In the current state, kmail is simply not usable
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>> with my IMAP account, it sends unreasonable amounts of time updating,
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>> and chokes in the process. I had to restart it all the time, and most
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>> often, that would not even work, I can't get to read my mail using kmail
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>> any longer. [...]
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>> I will continue to use other parts of the kdepim suite for now, mainly
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>> korganizer, in my experience bothe calendars and contacts works fine
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>> with akonadi.
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> a pretty long while ago I installed my own imap server on my desktop
> (dovecot + fetchmail) and do all filtering on the server using sieve.
> Doing it that way makes it very easy to switch from one mua to another
> one without moving one mail. In Kmail you can't move messages from INBOX
> to other folders (in case it is not done by sieve filter), so sometimes
> claws (or evolution) is in use to move them to other folders. Apart from
> that kmail works well for me.
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Generally speaking, should user have to install "middleware" filters to 
get things working? In my distro, Kubuntu, Kmail is broken to pieces 
since Plasma5 and Akonadi. I have given up on distro lists, I am tired 
of recreating filters whith any upgrade, search is not working. I get 
"invisible" mails that reocurr, Sudeenly 1 monrning droves of mail 
drrops in, some them urgent. Can devs just dump Akonadi the whole 
concept of having database cache instead of plain simple maildir folders