kmail sigh

[Anders Lund]

søndag den 28. januar 2018 21.21.24 CET skrev tic:
> Am Sonntag, 28. Januar 2018, 20:52:42 CET schrieb Anders Lund:
> > Back in kmail, after switching internet provider to something that should
> > be supported.
> > 
> > It worked fine for a week or two, but today, things started to feel ugly.
> > New mails does not show up, pressing the "check mail" button is, as it was
> > since the unfortunate akonadi showed up, unbearably slow. As is just
> > fetching a mail. Kmail/akonadi appears to do lots of other stuff, instead
> > of fetching the mail I want to view.
> > 
> > Damned, because there is really no nice alternatives.
> > 
> > When can we have akonadi-free kmail?
> 
> I often read comments like that and wonder why I have never really
> experienced all those troubles that so many users seem to have. I've been
> using kmail since the late 90s and it did not work as expected from time to
> time but it was acceptable and the problems resolved themselves somehow
> over time. Sometimes new setup of the whole distribution changed things for
> the better (or worse) sometimes updates.
> But I just used kmail with akonadi all along with imap setups and cannot
> confirm those major problems like yours Anders.
> 
> I don't want to belittle your experience Anders but I felt the developers'd
> like to see a positive comment once in a while.
> 
> best
> Manfred

I have 3 accounts, the mandatory "Local folders" that is unused, my main 
account (IMAP) which has quite a lot og mail (15000 or so), and a very low 
traffic second IMAP account.

When clicking the "check new mail" button, kmail seems to be very busy with 
tons of small actions, the main folder taking considerable time. Like it runs 
through all the mail allready there? Or downloading the entire folder and 
comparing? I don't know, but it is slow (like 30 secs in all).

Clicking a mail often leads to a pause, filled by the kmail/akonadi BSOD, 
before the mail is finally fetched. Like all softs of other stuff needs to be 
done first?! In any web client, mail shows immediately when the header in the 
list is clicked.

This is not new, for me the new thing is that I can actually read my mail at 
all using kmail. Still, I do not understand why it has to be so slow.

I have used kmail since KDE 1.12, more or less, albeit since the akonadi 
disaster, I had two long pauses (using thunderbird in the first and claws mail 
in  the second, recent one). I love kmail, but it is hard in recent years.

During setup a few weeks ago, I experienced that popups blocked me from filling 
in my information, and while the "identity" concept is smart in many ways, as 
an owner of more mail accounts, one needs to KNOW that kmails defaults are 
broken, it does not automatically use the correct delivery account, and 
creating the second account, it makes that identity the default without 
asking. Etc.

Kindly,
Anders