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On Tuesday 29 Dec 2015 10:20:23 J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 09:53:24 AM Mick wrote: |
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> > Have you been able to use Kmail2 reliably on a *laptop*? What problems |
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> > have you experienced? Has intermittent network availability caused loss |
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> > of messages? Any gotchas and workarounds? Any suggestions? |
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> I have been using Kmail2 for a couple of years now (ever since it became |
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> stable in portage) |
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> I had some issues over this time as well, but as I had already switched |
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> over to IMAP over 10 years ago, I never actually lost any emails and could |
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> easily fix this by deleting the local file-cache and database. |
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This is good to know. An earlier akonadi bug would actually delete files on |
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the server. O_O |
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> Currently I run it on my laptop (quad-core, 16GB ram, SSD) succesfully. |
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Hmm ... my laptop is also quad-core, but has only 4G RAM. I hope this is not |
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going to be a problem. |
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> Here is how I set it up: |
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> 1) Run Postgresql |
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> 2) I run the DB "natively" (eg. do NOT let akonadi start an "embedded" db) |
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> 3) Configure mail accounts (including GMail) as IMAP |
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> 4) Configure mail accounts to keep a copy locally |
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> Apart from a lengthy synchronize period (I do have emails dating back to |
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> 1997 on the server) and occasionally a process going up to 100%, it |
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> doesn't prevent me from actually using the laptop for other things. |
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I take this to mean that the Kmail interface does not freeze up and you can |
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continue to read/delete messages, change folders, etc.? |
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> As I take it along to customers as well, I am dependent on their WIFI |
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> systems. These are not the best, eg. I have experienced networking issues |
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> a lot. Not lost any messages and haven't had to restart the mail cache for |
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> a year now. (Since I switched away from embedded Mysql to "native" |
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> Postgresql) |
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> Joost |
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Thank you Joost, this is very useful to know. What do you mean by "haven't |
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had to restart the mail cache"? Do you mean you did not have to delete the |
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akonadi database(s) and restart it? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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