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On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 01:16:08 PM Mick wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 29 Dec 2015 12:39:18 J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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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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> > > This is good to know. An earlier akonadi bug would actually delete |
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> > > files |
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> > > on 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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> Yes, I remember reading about some bug between akonadi and mysql. akonadi |
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> would push its corruption to the IMAP4 server, deleting a tonne of messages. |
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> I also remember a Mr A McKinnon having a well earned rant on this same M/L |
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> when he was trying out Kmail2, quite likely still in ~arch at the time. |
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I never used a ~arch kmail. |
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Only use that for a very small set of applications. |
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Office-like applications are not in that set. |
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> > > I take this to mean that the Kmail interface does not freeze up and you |
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> > > can 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 |
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> > before doing something else with KMail. |
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> Cool, so as long I delete a few messages at a time, it should be OK. |
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Then you shouldn't notice anything. |
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You do get a status update in the bottom bar indicating how much it wants to |
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do in total and how many it did. |
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It's quite quick on my laptop. |
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> > > Thank you Joost, this is very useful to know. What do you mean by |
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> > > "haven't had to restart the mail cache"? Do you mean you did not have |
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> > > to delete the 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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> Yes, there are a number of files and databases in my current setup (Kmail1 |
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> with sqlite3) under .local/share/ including akonadi, baloo, et al. |
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sqlite is nice, for single threaded applications. |
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For anything more advanced, either a wrapper is required or something more |
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advanced needs to be used. |
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Joost |
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