On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Ian Wadham <iandw...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 think Akonadi has an option to use SQLite, but are not sure on the exact details required to set it up. I suspect it will be slow if you have a large quantity of email however. Might be worth a shot though. The folks on the kde-...@kde.org mailing list would be more knowledgable about that. > > 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 << > Regards, Ben >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
