[Mageia-discuss] problems with kmail2

Fri Nov 2 18:28:03 CET 2012

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?
+
+
+Not sure if anybody can help me here, if you have any tips to make akonadi 
+faster more stable they are welcome.
+
+-- 
+Renaud Michel
+
+