Hello I upgraded yesterday my computer from mageia 1 to mageia 2, most work but I am having problems with kmail2. I had read a lot about it, so I knew I had to export my filters to re-import them after upgrade. That worked, although at first they didn't seem to be properly applied, now that part is working. I also executed kmail-migrator by hand before starting kmail itself. It didn't import the password stored in kmail1 configuration, but thanks to this forum post http://fixunix.com/mandriva/342585-kmail-password-decoding.html I was able to restore them.
But that akonadi-based kmail feels like a big step backward compared to how rock-stable kmail1 was. akonadi is configured to use an external mysql instance, and a few times I have seen the mysqld process go crazy on a big select from akondi. After more than an hour the select was still not finished (or was restarted in a loop by akonadi?) and I had to restart the akonadi server to make it stop. I have a little over 100000 mails, could that be the problem? Is that too much for akonadi? Some times it takes kmail many seconds to show the content of a folder or to change the status of a mail (from unread to read), and it happens quite frequently that I have a popup about a conflict on a mail (the differences being the date and a tag \SEEN). How can there be conflict with a single mail client? Some times I have to wait some minutes for it to make the actions I asked for (mark mails as read or move them to trash). On such occasion I see this message in akonadi error log ItemRetrieverException : Resource was unable to deliver item On one occasion, akonadi lost its connection to mysql, with this message repeated several times in its error log Database error: DataStore::beginTransaction Last driver error: "QMYSQL: Unable to begin transaction" Last database error: "MySQL server has gone away" Mysql was still there, but I had to restart akonadi (not mysql) to make it work again. The worst is that it has lost some mails! I know because some of the mails sent to this list didn't make it to me, on one occasion I saw it mark the folder as having 3 unread mails, and when I wanted to go see them (with a shortcut to go to the next unread message) the count went down to 1, I can see the missing mail on the list archive, but not in my inbox (even if I go look at the files). I only have POP3 accounts and I didn't even configure a spam filter yet (I read there has been some problem with that, which should be fixed in 4.8.5). I am considering downgrading to kmail1 from mga1, but I guess I will have to downgrade all of kdepim. Does it get any better with KDE 4.9? Or maybe I will switch to another mail client, is there another for KDE or should I go to a GTK one like claws-mail? Not sure if anybody can help me here, if you have any tips to make akonadi faster more stable they are welcome. -- Renaud Michel
