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On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 10:51:57 AM Mick wrote: |
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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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Hmm... must have missed that one... |
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Are you sure that also affected IMAP connections? |
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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 |
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> not going to be a problem. |
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4GB? |
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Not sure, it's lower then my desktop: |
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quad-core, 8GB, spinning rust |
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The desktop also manages to run it all. |
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Personally, I wouldn't use a system with less than 8GB anymore. I only settled |
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for 16GB for my laptop as the 32GB versions were too bulky and expensive. |
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(Mind you, I do run VMs on this laptop) |
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% free -m |
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total used free shared buff/cache available |
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Mem: 16010 1333 737 414 13939 |
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14157 |
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Swap: 17407 196 17211 |
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% uptime |
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13:38:21 up 5 days, 22:07, 3 users, load average: 0.23, 0.23, 0.41 |
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(I tend to hibernate/suspend-to-disk my laptop when not using it) |
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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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Yes, with only the following comment: When moving large (1000+) amounts of |
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messages to a different folder, let the interface show it as finished before |
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doing something else with KMail. |
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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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Yes, restarting the mail cache is: delete everything and start over.... |
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Don't forget, akonadi-storage has 2 parts: |
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1) The database (mysql or postgresql) |
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2) Files |
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The 2 are linked and need to be kept in sync. |
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This is important for backups and cleanup. |
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In this respect, it's similar to other applications that work with databases |
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and files, like Gallery (2 and 3), Piwigo, some large BI applications made by |
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large corporations,.... |
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