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On Donnerstag, 26. Dezember 2013, 14:02:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 25/12/2013 16:19, Mick wrote: |
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> +1 |
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> I ran into this too in the kde-4.4 era (when kmail2 was showing first |
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> signs of being releasable) and I honestly have not seen any signs since |
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> that the kmail devs have any clue at all. This mailing list has many |
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> stories of folks experiencing data loss when they just follow the |
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> instructions. |
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I know, and I think one of them was mine ... |
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However, I always were able to fix it in away so I could live with it, but if a |
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piece of software does not allow you to do what it is ment to do, it becomes a |
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useless waste of bytes. So I had to restore from backup, which showed me two |
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things: |
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1) My backup works (yeah !!) |
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2) I should have restored *all* user data as well, because: |
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akonadi's mail filter agent stores in its config only a numerical id of a |
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directory where to put the filtered mails to ('Move to folder') instead of its |
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name. When recreating the database, it messed up these numbers, so the filters |
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put the mail into the wrong folders. Hence, it *requires* that both the fiter- |
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configfile *and* the database must be kept *syncronous*. Unless you have a |
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database+filesystem which can handle modifications in one *single* transaction, |
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this is IMHO a bad idea, and AFAIK no such combination exists so far. |
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> Nowadays I use Tbird and all issues just go away. |
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I tried Tbird as well, but it has also serious problems keeping the folders |
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synchronized. See my next mail I'm writing to this forum. |
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> It's unbelievable the chaos kamil2 can inflict on a system, and the |
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> worst is that everything they do is a complete 100% already-solved |
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> system, there's nothing new in it - it does mail and contacts plus a few |
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> other bits! Classic case of 2nd major project syndrome (read mythical |
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> man Month if you don't get the reference) |
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Well, I think the idea behind akonadi is not that bad, but some times I have |
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the impression that the implementation is either incomplete or buggy or highly |
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inefficient. |
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