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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] problems with kmail2</H1>
<B>Shlomi Fish</B>
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<I>Fri Nov 2 19:45:25 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>Hi Renaud,
On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:28:03 +0100
Renaud MICHEL <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">r.h.michel+mageia at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
><i> Hello
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I upgraded yesterday my computer from mageia 1 to mageia 2, most work but I
</I>><i> am having problems with kmail2.
</I>><i> I had read a lot about it, so I knew I had to export my filters to re-import
</I>><i> them after upgrade. That worked, although at first they didn't seem to be
</I>><i> properly applied, now that part is working.
</I>><i> I also executed kmail-migrator by hand before starting kmail itself. It
</I>><i> didn't import the password stored in kmail1 configuration, but thanks to
</I>><i> this forum post
</I>><i> <A HREF="http://fixunix.com/mandriva/342585-kmail-password-decoding.html">http://fixunix.com/mandriva/342585-kmail-password-decoding.html</A>
</I>><i> I was able to restore them.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> But that akonadi-based kmail feels like a big step backward compared to how
</I>><i> rock-stable kmail1 was.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> akonadi is configured to use an external mysql instance, and a few times I
</I>><i> have seen the mysqld process go crazy on a big select from akondi. After
</I>><i> more than an hour the select was still not finished (or was restarted in a
</I>><i> loop by akonadi?) and I had to restart the akonadi server to make it stop.
</I>><i> I have a little over 100000 mails, could that be the problem? Is that too
</I>><i> much for akonadi?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Some times it takes kmail many seconds to show the content of a folder or to
</I>><i> change the status of a mail (from unread to read), and it happens quite
</I>><i> frequently that I have a popup about a conflict on a mail (the differences
</I>><i> being the date and a tag \SEEN). How can there be conflict with a single
</I>><i> mail client?
</I>><i> Some times I have to wait some minutes for it to make the actions I asked
</I>><i> for (mark mails as read or move them to trash).
</I>><i> On such occasion I see this message in akonadi error log
</I>><i>
</I>><i> ItemRetrieverException : Resource was unable to deliver item
</I>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> On one occasion, akonadi lost its connection to mysql, with this message
</I>><i> repeated several times in its error log
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Database error: DataStore::beginTransaction
</I>><i> Last driver error: "QMYSQL: Unable to begin transaction"
</I>><i> Last database error: "MySQL server has gone away"
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Mysql was still there, but I had to restart akonadi (not mysql) to make it
</I>><i> work again.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> The worst is that it has lost some mails!
</I>><i> I know because some of the mails sent to this list didn't make it to me, on
</I>><i> one occasion I saw it mark the folder as having 3 unread mails, and when I
</I>><i> wanted to go see them (with a shortcut to go to the next unread message) the
</I>><i> count went down to 1, I can see the missing mail on the list archive, but
</I>><i> not in my inbox (even if I go look at the files).
</I>><i> I only have POP3 accounts and I didn't even configure a spam filter yet (I
</I>><i> read there has been some problem with that, which should be fixed in 4.8.5).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I am considering downgrading to kmail1 from mga1, but I guess I will have to
</I>><i> downgrade all of kdepim.
</I>><i> Does it get any better with KDE 4.9?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Or maybe I will switch to another mail client, is there another for KDE or
</I>><i> should I go to a GTK one like claws-mail?
</I>><i>
</I>
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):
<A HREF="https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/convert-away-from-kmail/overview">https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/convert-away-from-kmail/overview</A>
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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