Hi Renaud, On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:28:03 +0100 Renaud MICHEL <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > I cannot help you with your KMail2/Akonadi issues, but I can say that after KMail 2 and me did not get along, I had to switch to a different MUA (= mail user agent), and eventually went with claws-mail. Claws-Mail is not perfect, but it has most of KMail's useful features, and appears to work nicely. It's also very fast, and I run it fine through ssh over my laptop's wifi network and it's still responsive. I have written some scripts to convert away from KMail here (let me know if there's something you don't understand there): https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/convert-away-from-kmail/overview They took a lot of time to run here, but it was worth it, and now I'm a (mostly) happy Claws-Mail user. I do wish that KMail's developers did not screw up KMail 2 so badly. KMail 1 was *so* great. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ First stop for Perl beginners - http://perl-begin.org/ We agree. But do we agree to agree? Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
