Does KMail require Akonadi? (was: Re: Frustrating to use KMail with Akonadi 5.14.1 (20.04))

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Donnerstag, 2. Juli 2020 14:02:14 CEST rhkramer at gmail.com wrote:
> I currently use kmail 1.13.7 on kde 4.8.4 (on Debian Wheezy) as my daily
> (email) driver.  I have Nepomuk (or whatever it uses shut off.)
> 
> I have something like 500k old emails in folders and probably see (or not
> see ;-) 300 to 1000 emails per day.
> 
> I'm a little afraid to move off kmail 1.13.7 for a variety of reasons, but
> among them the problems I hear related to akonadi and, presumably, the
> associated problems with handling fairly large quantities of emails.
> 
> So, my question is this -- if I'd upgrade to Buster and try to use the kmail
> version there (5.9.3), how likely am I to have problems?

I cannot answer how likely you are going to have problems because the variety 
among different Linux installations and the usage scenarios of KMail are just 
too big.

What I can say is that I (using KMail 5.10.3 on openSUSE Leap 15.1 and, on a 
different computer, using the most recent version of KMail on openSUSE 
Tumbleweed) don't have serious problems with KMail. I'm using KMail only with 
IMAP accounts. KMail has problems if I try to open one of my large local 
folders.

I strongly suggest to start with a freshly setup KMail after the upgrade to 
Buster. Trying to upgrade your old setup of KMail to the new version of KMail 
will likely cause problems.

Regards,
Ingo
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