Re: [gentoo-user] Not-quite-right Intel graphics

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:19:36 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:33:02 BST Mick wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 10:19:23 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > I'm using my ISP's SMTP server with the same settings as usual. KMail
> > > detected them itself
> >
> > Yes, it does the same here, when I ask it to detect what Gmail wants to
> > use, ... then it fails when it tries to set up a XOAUTH2 token via
> > akonadi's plugin.
> >
> > I succeeded by selecting manually individual authentication settings and
> > trying them one at a time.
>
> Do you mind saying which authentication method worked?
>
> > > Let's see if this goes out, after I spent two days rebuilding the whole
> > > system from scratch and setting up yet another new account for myself.
> > > I've also tried switching from MySQL to PostgreSQL for storage; so far I
> > > see little change.
> >
> > I've received this fine, via the list, so whatever you've done appears to
> > have worked.
>
> It was that two-day rebuilding operation.
>
> > MySQL used to be problematic in the early days of akonadi, or perhaps it
> > was akonadi itself to blame.  I've used both MySQL and PostgreSQL.  I
> > can't say I've noticed a difference, except PostgreSQL upgrades being
> > somewhat more involved between major releases.  However, this may have
> > something to do with the way I had unnecessarily complicated its
> > installation and
> > configuration.
>
> The KDE PIM users' list has a few people who claim to have banished their
> problems by switching to PSQL, but I can't confirm that yet.

This morning I lost the last day's worth of incoming mail, because KMail saved 
its archive in the wrong place which then got deleted.

If anyone replied to this, please send again. Thanks.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.