[Mageia-discuss] problems with kmail2

Fri Nov 2 19:45:25 CET 2012

Hi Renaud,
+
+On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:28:03 +0100
+Renaud MICHEL <r.h.michel+mageia at gmail.com> wrote:
+
+> 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?
+> 
+
+I cannot help you with your KMail2/Akonadi issues, but I can say that after
+KMail 2  and me did not get along, I had to switch to a different MUA (= mail
+user agent), and eventually went with claws-mail. Claws-Mail is not perfect,
+but it has most of KMail's useful features, and appears to work nicely. It's
+also very fast, and I run it fine through ssh over my laptop's wifi network
+and it's still responsive.
+
+I have written some scripts to convert away from KMail here (let me know if
+there's something you don't understand there):
+
+https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/convert-away-from-kmail/overview
+
+They took a lot of time to run here, but it was worth it, and now I'm a
+(mostly) happy Claws-Mail user. I do wish that KMail's developers did not screw
+up KMail 2 so badly. KMail 1 was *so* great.
+
+Regards,
+
+	Shlomi Fish
+
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