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Hi Alan, |
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Am Mittwoch, 24. August 2011, 22:11:48 schrieb Alan McKinnon: |
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> I am about to get on a damn plane to Germany, find me the entire |
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> collection of KDEPIM devs and shoot every last one of those fuckers |
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> dead. dead. dead. dead. |
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if you need a place to sleep, you're welcome :) |
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> Then blow up the repo so this POS will never again see the light of |
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> day. |
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> I'm trying to migrate away from kdepim. Nothing else out there imports |
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> KDE folders |
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They are maildirs, sort of, aren't they? |
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~ $ ls .kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail/inbox/new/ |
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{2f2c8b47-dc21-4a7a-a0c4-1f0f6a223264} {ef61aa1a-f38f-40a7-99b1-6573bb12afa5} |
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> so I use my usual trick of running a local imap server, |
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> dragging mail trees into it and when the new mail client is started, |
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> everything is right there. |
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> Akonadi/kmail2 silently destroys the mail when you attempt this. |
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That's really bad... |
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> I did a few tests, copied small folders, contents of other folders, |
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> etc and satisfied myself it all worked nicely. Then dragged and |
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> dropped nice big chunks of mail tree into the IMAP folders. The mails |
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> appear in the kde view, but THEY ARE NOT ON DISK ANYMORE. What I am |
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> seeing is the akonadi cache, and sooner or later that will expire. |
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F..k! |
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> There was no warning, no dialog, no notification. Just a pile of mail |
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> disappeared. Akonadi/nepomuk/kmail/virtuoso/soprano/strigi didn't do |
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> it's usual stunt of observing that my mouse pointer had moved and |
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> consume 200% of cpu at load 11 for 30 minutes while it reindexed |
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> everything. It appears to have just chucked 2GB of pim data away. |
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Check your .xsession-error for SQL-Errors. I had a ton of these and had to |
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reconfigure my MySQL-Server to manage the requests it got from |
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kmail/akonadi/whatever. Don't remember the details though. |
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> Need I mention that NOT chucking pim data away is it's primary design |
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> goal (or should be). |
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> Now finally after 3 years, I understand what all the other ex-KDE |
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> users are on about - this is a stinking pile of bloatcrap and a |
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> solution to a problem that actually does not exist. |
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I really like kde4. But this PIM-stuff... I don't get it. |
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> To say that I'm pissed off is putting it mildly. |
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> Tomorrow morning I will decide if KDE4 itself is to be the next |
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> casualty. |
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Good luck, |
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Michael |
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