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On Sunday, 26 November 2017 10:22:26 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> I use kmail a lot on my desktop and laptop and have not noticed that in a |
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> very long time. It has actually been quite stable. |
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I use it on 3 different boxen. Two of them in daily usage have frequent |
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problems of dups and random resync's downloading tonnes of headers and data |
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from Gmail. |
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> I do use IMAP (cyrus) and akonadi is configured to use a postgresql database |
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> which is not running as embedded under my own user. (Postgresql is |
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> configured as a proper RDBMS using it's own user) |
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On one box I set it up exactly like you have, following your advice - thanks |
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again. On the other two I've let the default MySQL setup to do the akonadi |
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dance. |
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> I wonder of part of the issues most people are seeing is because of the |
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> default of using mysql embedded? |
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> Joost |
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No I wouldn't think so. Most of the problems I have observed here are related |
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to Gmail and how Kmail interacts with it. In particular sending/deleting |
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emails seems to create problems which lead to duplicates in Sent folder and/or |
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resyncs. The problems appear to take place when the connection to the server |
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is down. If I leave kmail running and return to the box an hour later it is |
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most likely that when I click on Inbox, or any other Gmail folder, the |
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connection to the server will hang and eventually time out. I have seen |
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reports mentioning similar problems by other Kmail users, waiting/hoping for a |
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fix. |
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I have not experienced such problems with other mail servers, or at least they |
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are not as noticeable of frequent. |
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Also, there is a latency/delay between receiving/sending an email and akonadi |
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doing its thing with indexing, storing, etc. I know others think a database |
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back end was the best thing KDEPIM could have come up with, but here it has |
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been an unmitigated disaster, causing endless hours of troubleshooting and |
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head scratching. The latest thing sent to test my patience has been the |
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address book(s) no longer show any addresses. Also, the drop down menu for |
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Edit, View and Tools in the same, are empty, while File, Settings and Help are |
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thankfully still working. :-/ I have refused to waste any more time trying |
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to troubleshoot this problem. |
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Unfortunately, I have found every other email client interface I have tried |
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less satisfactory and I keep returning to Kmail. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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