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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: why is there so much "weird shit" in akonadi/kdepim?
From:       Ianseeks <bingmybong () btinternet ! com>
Date:       2019-12-13 7:12:04
Message-ID: 1733948.Y0jNGVJuzF () lianli
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On Thursday, 12 December 2019 18:22:18 GMT Paul Vixie wrote:
> akonadi is junk, abandonware. we are stuck with it but it has no champion. a bad \
> situation. switch to postgres and restart it twice every day and you will be able \
> to use kontact. a fine trade.

moving to postgres has definitely made things a lot better for me

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> On 12 Dec 2019, 14:07, at 14:07, Mathias Homann <mathias.homann@opensuse.org> \
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > why is kdepim / akonadi such a high maintenance system?
> > 
> > I mean seriously, sometimes it feels i spend twice as much time keeping
> > 
> > akonadi happy and working than i spend actually reading email or
> > working with 
> > addressbook or calendar. And I'm subscribed to a lot of openSUSE
> > mailing 
> > lists, so that says something.
> > 
> > Here's a choice selection of hoops that akonadi and/or kdepim places in
> > front 
> > of me to hop through:
> > 
> > - sometimes the webdav ressource forgets its configured username,
> > password, 
> > and server url for no reason. when that happens there is NO indication
> > that it 
> > happened, other than calendar entries that I created with some other
> > tool, 
> > e.g. on my phone, do not show up in kontact. So by now I am trained to
> > check 
> > wether the nextcloud connection still works before creating a calendar
> > entry.
> > 
> > - i have a "lost+found" folder in my mail, that contains unreadable
> > headers of 
> > about 300 emails from as far as two years back. the folder is
> > permanently 
> > offline, so I can't do anything about it. I also can't find that folder
> > 
> > anywhere on my harddisk.
> > 
> > - sometimes when i move emails from one folder to another the mails do
> > get 
> > moved on the imap server, but in kmail they stay behind in the source
> > folder 
> > and no amount of akonadictl restart and/or restarting kontact convinces
> > the 
> > system that the mails have been moved
> > 
> > - several of the ressources akonadi uses fail to understand the kde
> > typical 
> > "file://" urls for folders. as a result i have a lot of folders under
> > ~/.local 
> > and/or ~/.share and/or ~/.config that start with "file://" as the name.
> > Common factor here seems to be that all these are maildir folders used
> > by 
> > akonadi to store stuff, for example knotes notes.
> > 
> > - "empty all trashcans" only works on the trashcan in the account that
> > you 
> > have selected, and then only when you are actually looking at that
> > trash 
> > folder, and then only when you are lucky.
> > 
> > - sending mails leaves copies of the mails in local-folders/outbox even
> > though 
> > the mails are properly put into the sent folder for the account that
> > sent 
> > them.
> > 
> > now the advocatus diaboli raises his head and asks: if other pim-like
> > apps 
> > (thunderbird) can do all this without a "middleware" like akonadi, and
> > do it 
> > right, what is the point of akonadi?
> > 
> > And YES i AM ranting.
> > 
> > Sorry, had to let that out.
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers
> > MH
> > 
> > *Mathias Homann*
> > Mathias.Homann@openSUSE.org[1]
> > telegram: https://telegram.me/lemmy98[2]
> > irc: [lemmy] on freenode and ircnet
> > obs: lemmy04
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> > C102
> > 
> > *
> > 
> > --------
> > [1] mailto:Mathias.Homann@eregion.de
> > [2] https://telegram.me/lemmy98
> 


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