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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Akonadi loses mails
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:28:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1446907.0aWeP0iNKo@nazgul> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1719362.9qoSu4EJhB@pc>

On Wed 24 August 2011 22:53:09 Michael Schreckenbauer did opine 
thusly:
> Hi Alan,
> 
> Am Mittwoch, 24. August 2011, 22:11:48 schrieb Alan McKinnon:

[snip]

> > I'm trying to migrate away from kdepim. Nothing else out there
> > imports KDE folders
> 
> They are maildirs, sort of, aren't they?
> ~ $  ls .kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail/inbox/new/
> {2f2c8b47-dc21-4a7a-a0c4-1f0f6a223264} 
> {ef61aa1a-f38f-40a7-99b1-6573bb12afa5}

Yes, after a fashion. It's my understanding that there are multiple 
implementations of maildir, all different, except that they have 
directories that map to mail folders, and files that map to emails. 
The actual structure varies a lot, and the only real "standard" is how 
qmail did it originally


[snip]

> > There was no warning, no dialog, no notification. Just a pile of
> > mail disappeared. Akonadi/nepomuk/kmail/virtuoso/soprano/strigi
> > didn't do it's usual stunt of observing that my mouse pointer
> > had moved and consume 200% of cpu at load 11 for 30 minutes
> > while it reindexed everything. It appears to have just chucked
> > 2GB of pim data away.
> Check your .xsession-error for SQL-Errors. I had a ton of these and
> had to reconfigure my MySQL-Server to manage the requests it got
> from kmail/akonadi/whatever. Don't remember the details though.

I did check there, and a few other places too such as enabling mail-
related stuff in kdeugdialog and observing console output. I found 
nothing that seemed relevant.

> > Need I mention that NOT chucking pim data away is it's primary
> > design goal (or should be).
> > 
> > Now finally after 3 years, I understand what all the other
> > ex-KDE
> > users are on about - this is a stinking pile of bloatcrap and a
> > solution to a problem that actually does not exist.
> 
> I really like kde4. But this PIM-stuff... I don't get it.

Let's not talk about the complete lack of any findable documentation.
The Nagios stuff is in better shape...


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-24 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-24 20:11 [gentoo-user] Akonadi loses mails Alan McKinnon
2011-08-24 20:53 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-08-24 21:28   ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2011-08-24 21:54   ` Mick
2011-08-24 21:18 ` Alex Schuster
2011-08-25 19:11 ` Volker Armin Hemmann

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