Am Mittwoch 24 August 2011, 22:11:48 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > I am about to get on a damn plane to Germany, find me the entire > collection of KDEPIM devs and shoot every last one of those fuckers > dead. dead. dead. dead. > > Then blow up the repo so this POS will never again see the light of > day. > > I'm trying to migrate away from kdepim. Nothing else out there imports > KDE folders so I use my usual trick of running a local imap server, > dragging mail trees into it and when the new mail client is started, > everything is right there. > > Akonadi/kmail2 silently destroys the mail when you attempt this. > > I did a few tests, copied small folders, contents of other folders, > etc and satisfied myself it all worked nicely. Then dragged and > dropped nice big chunks of mail tree into the IMAP folders. The mails > appear in the kde view, but THEY ARE NOT ON DISK ANYMORE. What I am > seeing is the akonadi cache, and sooner or later that will expire.
and you looked at the contents of .local/share/akonadi especially local/share/akonadi/file_db_data? > > There was no warning, no dialog, no notification. Just a pile of mail > disappeared. Akonadi/nepomuk/kmail/virtuoso/soprano/strigi didn't do > it's usual stunt of observing that my mouse pointer had moved and > consume 200% of cpu at load 11 for 30 minutes while it reindexed > everything. It appears to have just chucked 2GB of pim data away. just restart akonadi (akonaditray helps a lot). > > Need I mention that NOT chucking pim data away is it's primary design > goal (or should be). > > Now finally after 3 years, I understand what all the other ex-KDE > users are on about - this is a stinking pile of bloatcrap and a > solution to a problem that actually does not exist. you were not forced to go kmail2, were you? You should have asked me first - yes, it is a crapfest. I haven't lost mails (except thanks to crashes at a bad moment). Sometimes mails are gone - until akonadi is stopped and restarted. It is a nightmare. Yeah. -- #163933
