Re: [gentoo-user] Akonadi loses mails

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

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.
> 
> 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 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.
> 
> 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.

and you looked at the contents of .local/share/akonadi especially 
local/share/akonadi/file_db_data?

> 
> 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.

just restart akonadi (akonaditray helps a lot).
> 
> 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.

you were not forced to go kmail2, were you?

You should have asked me first - yes, it is a crapfest. I haven't lost mails 
(except thanks to crashes at a bad moment). Sometimes mails are gone - until 
akonadi is stopped and restarted.

It is a nightmare. Yeah.

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