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

[Paul Vixie]

akonadi is junk, abandonware. we are stuck with it but it has no champion. a bad situation. switch to postgres and restart it twice every day and you will be able to use kontact. a fine trade.

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On 12 Dec 2019, 14:07, at 14:07, Mathias Homann <mathias.homann at opensuse.org> wrote:
>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
>
>*Mathias Homann*
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