Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail2 - I have not given up ... yet

[J. Roeleveld]

On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 09:53:24 AM Mick wrote:

> Have you been able to use Kmail2 reliably on a *laptop*?  What problems have
> you experienced?  Has intermittent network availability caused loss of
> messages?  Any gotchas and workarounds?  Any suggestions?


I have been using Kmail2 for a couple of years now (ever since it became 
stable in portage)
I had some issues over this time as well, but as I had already switched over 
to IMAP over 10 years ago, I never actually lost any emails and could easily 
fix this by deleting the local file-cache and database.

Currently I run it on my laptop (quad-core, 16GB ram, SSD) succesfully.
Here is how I set it up:
1) Run Postgresql
2) I run the DB "natively" (eg. do NOT let akonadi start an "embedded" db)
3) Configure mail accounts (including GMail) as IMAP
4) Configure mail accounts to keep a copy locally

Apart from a lengthy synchronize period (I do have emails dating back to 1997 
on the server) and occasionally a process going up to 100%, it doesn't prevent 
me from actually using the laptop for other things.

As I take it along to customers as well, I am dependent on their WIFI systems. 
These are not the best, eg. I have experienced networking issues a lot. Not 
lost any messages and haven't had to restart the mail cache for a year now. 
(Since I switched away from embedded Mysql to "native" Postgresql)

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Joost