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On 12/08/2014 07:36, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On Monday, August 11, 2014 10:45:07 PM Mick wrote: |
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>> On Monday 11 Aug 2014 20:01:16 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>>> isn't it great? back in the days when kmail stored emails in files, |
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>>> everything worked great and even folders with 100k mails were not a |
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>>> problem. |
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>>> But, no, they had to break that. |
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>>> I lost ca 500k emails thanks to akonadi-crap and errors like that. I |
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>>> really loved kmail and thunderbird is garbage compared - but akonadi |
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>>> took away that choice. |
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>>> |
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>>> Thank you, kdepim-devs for making the dumbest decision ever! *thumbsup* |
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>> I share your feelings although I haven't lost messages in my current attempt |
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>> to road test kmail2. I am dreading the moment when kmail1 will stop |
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>> working due to bitrot and I'll have to make a choice. :-( |
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> With a modern machine and the latest versions, it's not too bad and responds |
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> quicker then kmail-1 did. With the old version, I often had kmail become |
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> unresponsive when synchronizing the email. |
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> I didn't loose any emails, but that is more likely related to the emails being |
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> stored on an imap server, rather then being lucky. |
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> I really don't see the point of forcing mysql as a backend. Sqlite would have |
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> been a better choice. |
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Way back when in the dark days of KDE-4.4 or thereabouts, the KDE devs |
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did do extensive tests with mysql vs sqlite and found sqlite lacking in |
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horsepower. Remember that it must store the metadata for all your mails |
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and some of us have lots of mail. IIRC there was also serious contention |
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issues with multiple threads. |
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sqlite is an amazing little product, but it does have it's limits. It |
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performs really well as an embedded datastore to replace flat file |
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storage with an SQL interface, and my gut-feel evaluation is that it |
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runs out of steam at similar orders of magnitude of data. |
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Amarok incidentally has almost exactly the same issues and the same |
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solution was adopted |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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