From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QwKSp-00052l-Id for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:54:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C7D321C245; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:54:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A9BF21C090 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:53:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Aug 2011 20:53:12 -0000 Received: from p5B0847E4.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO pc.localnet) [91.8.71.228] by mail.gmx.net (mp062) with SMTP; 24 Aug 2011 22:53:12 +0200 X-Authenticated: #13997268 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18zpc9V930z7S1lnpRMLDBOGdtNAJL9guzo7dfgOn 1XBkwjjs1eVuVq From: Michael Schreckenbauer To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Akonadi loses mails Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:53:09 +0200 Message-ID: <1719362.9qoSu4EJhB@pc> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo; KDE/4.7.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1804777.EmZhrvXnVp@nazgul> References: <1804777.EmZhrvXnVp@nazgul> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8cbbe9a8a61c6f4f8ca96377559ddb16 Hi Alan, Am Mittwoch, 24. August 2011, 22:11:48 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > I am about to get on a damn plane to Germany, find me the entire > collection of KDEPIM devs and shoot every last one of those fuckers > dead. dead. dead. dead. if you need a place to sleep, you're welcome :) > Then blow up the repo so this POS will never again see the light of > day. > 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} > so I use my usual trick of running a local imap server, > dragging mail trees into it and when the new mail client is started, > everything is right there. > > Akonadi/kmail2 silently destroys the mail when you attempt this. That's really bad... > I did a few tests, copied small folders, contents of other folders, > etc and satisfied myself it all worked nicely. Then dragged and > dropped nice big chunks of mail tree into the IMAP folders. The mails > appear in the kde view, but THEY ARE NOT ON DISK ANYMORE. What I am > seeing is the akonadi cache, and sooner or later that will expire. F..k! > 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. > 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. > To say that I'm pissed off is putting it mildly. > Tomorrow morning I will decide if KDE4 itself is to be the next > casualty. Good luck, Michael