why is there so much "weird shit" in akonadi/kdepim?

[Mathias Homann]

Hi all,

why is kdepim / akonadi such a high maintenance system?

I mean seriously, sometimes it feels i spend twice as much time keeping 
akonadi happy and working than i spend actually reading email or working with 
addressbook or calendar. And I'm subscribed to a lot of openSUSE mailing 
lists, so that says something.

Here's a choice selection of hoops that akonadi and/or kdepim places in front 
of me to hop through:

- sometimes the webdav ressource forgets its configured username, password, 
and server url for no reason. when that happens there is NO indication that it 
happened, other than calendar entries that I created with some other tool, 
e.g. on my phone, do not show up in kontact. So by now I am trained to check 
wether the nextcloud connection still works before creating a calendar entry.

- i have a "lost+found" folder in my mail, that contains unreadable headers of 
about 300 emails from as far as two years back. the folder is permanently 
offline, so I can't do anything about it. I also can't find that folder 
anywhere on my harddisk.

- sometimes when i move emails from one folder to another the mails do get 
moved on the imap server, but in kmail they stay behind in the source folder 
and no amount of akonadictl restart and/or restarting kontact convinces the 
system that the mails have been moved

- several of the ressources akonadi uses fail to understand the kde typical 
"file://" urls for folders. as a result i have a lot of folders under ~/.local 
and/or ~/.share and/or ~/.config that start with "file://" as the name.
Common factor here seems to be that all these are maildir folders used by 
akonadi to store stuff, for example knotes notes.

- "empty all trashcans" only works on the trashcan in the account that you 
have selected, and then only when you are actually looking at that trash 
folder, and then only when you are lucky.

- sending mails leaves copies of the mails in local-folders/outbox even though 
the mails are properly put into the sent folder for the account that sent 
them.

now the advocatus diaboli raises his head and asks: if other pim-like apps 
(thunderbird) can do all this without a "middleware" like akonadi, and do it 
right, what is the point of akonadi?

And YES i AM ranting.

Sorry, had to let that out.


Cheers
MH

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