On Sunday, 26 November 2017 10:22:26 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > I use kmail a lot on my desktop and laptop and have not noticed that in a > very long time. It has actually been quite stable.
I use it on 3 different boxen. Two of them in daily usage have frequent problems of dups and random resync's downloading tonnes of headers and data from Gmail. > I do use IMAP (cyrus) and akonadi is configured to use a postgresql database > which is not running as embedded under my own user. (Postgresql is > configured as a proper RDBMS using it's own user) On one box I set it up exactly like you have, following your advice - thanks again. On the other two I've let the default MySQL setup to do the akonadi dance. > I wonder of part of the issues most people are seeing is because of the > default of using mysql embedded? > > -- > Joost No I wouldn't think so. Most of the problems I have observed here are related to Gmail and how Kmail interacts with it. In particular sending/deleting emails seems to create problems which lead to duplicates in Sent folder and/or resyncs. The problems appear to take place when the connection to the server is down. If I leave kmail running and return to the box an hour later it is most likely that when I click on Inbox, or any other Gmail folder, the connection to the server will hang and eventually time out. I have seen reports mentioning similar problems by other Kmail users, waiting/hoping for a fix. I have not experienced such problems with other mail servers, or at least they are not as noticeable of frequent. Also, there is a latency/delay between receiving/sending an email and akonadi doing its thing with indexing, storing, etc. I know others think a database back end was the best thing KDEPIM could have come up with, but here it has been an unmitigated disaster, causing endless hours of troubleshooting and head scratching. The latest thing sent to test my patience has been the address book(s) no longer show any addresses. Also, the drop down menu for Edit, View and Tools in the same, are empty, while File, Settings and Help are thankfully still working. :-/ I have refused to waste any more time trying to troubleshoot this problem. Unfortunately, I have found every other email client interface I have tried less satisfactory and I keep returning to Kmail. -- Regards, Mick
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