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 1QwfMj-0003z0-4p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:13:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78BBB21C278; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:13:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F148921C221 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:11:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxd23 with SMTP id 23so2408218fxd.40 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:11:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=nUOu2b/GMgKP0ngIupJdKcjnIWLT8YX2KzR6NfwIrkE=; b=Acv9O2D8FxOA1iuDnFiEi5qVQf+We7iQ7OxWX4ndjdXpb8/3xtSTcw1FVG3NVic/1a ad6Ymqm7Yj4g8h6Fvs29FLsSqsGnc5h9UzuhQebWSmtbK9M1xdx1TlzYsuCgRL6YrupR tbSCMuuYcH4u3uxtDAyza3JXYLSC2OnHl7a/8= Received: by 10.223.59.13 with SMTP id j13mr149766fah.96.1314299506211; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:11:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localnet (ip-80-226-1-7.vodafone-net.de [80.226.1.7]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e2sm674325fah.1.2011.08.25.12.11.44 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:11:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Akonadi loses mails Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:11:42 +0200 Message-ID: <2070055.tHlaMulGH5@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/3.0.1; 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-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a7d648b75fbc08f005d1b3a2100bb863 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. -- #163933