kmail sigh

[O. Sinclair]

On 02/02/18 03:46, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On Friday 2 February 2018 4:50:36 AM IST Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
>> On Monday, January 29, 2018 10:11:09 AM AKST Ianseeks wrote:
>>> Try converting kmail to use postgresql, its a lot faster.  It doesn't
>>> eliminate akonadi issues like duplicates but i seem to get a hell of lot
>>> less of them and the "retrieving folders..." issue seems to have
>>> disappeared.  If you have to do the "akonadictl fsck/vacuum", you'll find
>>> that is so fast compared to running it using mysql
>>
>> I would like to try that, but am afraid of all the information I'd lose,
>> since there is not export/import facility for Akonadi. Do you lose all your
>> read/ unread/important statuses? Or are those stored in the maildir file?
>> What else do you lose?
> 
> You could use a local dovecot instance instead of keeping mail in maildir.
> 
> For me, that setup hasn't lost a mail in few years.
> 
To me, this is one of the issues with Akonadi. You have set up another 
"middleware" to fix the issues with the middleware Akonadi.

On my previous laptop I did that but I quite frankly got irritated. Now 
I live with duplicate emails and the fact that I can no longer choose 
what folders I want to download on an IMAP server. Say that "Clutter" on 
Office365.com is totally useless to me - but I can not choose to not 
have it downloaded.

that is a regression from earlier version. The double mails and ghost 
mails are well known and reported plenty times.

The simple truth is that Akonadi is not a well working concept.

kind regards,
Orjan Sinclair