On Thursday 30 June 2011 1:33:07 am Tomaz Canabrava wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote: > > A Wednesday, June 22, 2011, Ian Wadham va escriure: > >> Can I build KMail without Akonadi, etc? > > > > No (or maybe you could but it would be mostly useless :D) > > Maybe that deserves a better answer. ;) > I was hoping for one ... :-)
> Akonadi is not another pim software, akonadi is what kmail uses > internally to retrieve information from your e-mails, such as > contacts. so Akonadi is an important technology inside kmail, and you > probably will not kmail without it. > What I hear you saying is, "Have faith, my son. Persevere. Keep downloading. Keep installing. All will be revealed ... and you will receive your reward." Well, I just find that hard to believe. I did install MySQL on my Macbook (I may need it for another project), but Akonadi does not find it. I don't really need an address book in a KDE app. I have an iPhone ... :-) My main concern is to port my email archives to the Macbook and to be able to read, write and file emails using the excellent facilities of KMail. I do not see why that simple requirement needs a full-bottle relational database manager. It just looks like dead weight from my point of view. I say this advisedly and with no offence intended. I have been designing and programming RDBMS based applications for about 20 years - large and small DBs. Unfortunately, very few, if any, other email clients seem to recognise the Maildir format I am using in KMail. So I am torn between kludging my emails into mbox format with a script or persevering with trying to get Akonadi to work in Mac OS X. Neither alternative looks good to me. All the best, Ian W. >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
