From kdepim-users Sat Apr 06 07:45:49 2019 From: Ianseeks Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2019 07:45:49 +0000 To: kdepim-users Subject: Re: Considering to switch away from KDEPIM/Akonadi Message-Id: <8590470.oBCMH9YxWD () lianli> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kdepim-users&m=155453677909205 On Friday, 5 April 2019 10:53:05 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 5 April 2019 08:37:20 BST Ianseeks wrote: > > > The only thing that still didn't work well was the filtering on incoming > > email as it created duplicates (i've not tried it since) so i let all emails > > arrive first then selected all then applied the filters manually. I'm only > > getting the occasional duplicate now. > > That's a good idea - I must try it. At present new emails are being filtered > into their proper folders, and marked unread, but the Unread total is not > updated so I don't know they're there. I have to stop and start akonadi for > them to appear. I configured the toolbar to have "Apply All Filters" on it to make it easy. I occasionally get an "Unread" total on the inbox even though there are none. It seems that sometimes the process doesn't complete. > I've several times created a new user for myself, setting KMail up again and > importing my my mails. I get the same behaviour every time. > > I've also found that importing from KMail archive is not a good idea: it > doesn't remove duplicates, which continue to cause problems thereafter. I > first extract the archive, then import the directory structure; that does > remove duplicates. > > There's another problem with archives: they only store the emails themselves, > not things like Important marks. They aren't proper archives in the usual > sense. i've not tried that for years. I think it tried it when migrating from one version to another and it didn't seem to work well. > -- opensuse:tumbleweed:20190403 Qt: 5.12.2 KDE Frameworks: 5.56.0 - KDE Plasma: 5.15.3 - kwin 5.15.3 kmail2 5.10.3 - akonadiserver 5.10.3 - Kernel: 5.0.5-1-default - xf86-video-nouveau: 1.0.15