[kde] Re: KDEPIM 4.6 prob^Wimpressions

John Layt posted on Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:39:40 +0100 as excerpted:

On Wednesday 29 Jun 2011 18:40:32 Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
All this talk about trashed mail and such isn't very encouraging. Is
there somewhere that explains what changes are afoot for this new
release? Right now it sounds like KMail is going to some big binary
blob for all my mails a la Outlook, but that could be my own ignorance
- perhaps someone could correct me on that. I'm looking at upgrading my
Fedora to 15 and wonder if I'm going to get side-swiped with these
hassles and should maybe start looking at another mailer that's free of
all the Social Nonsense baggage KDE seems to be accumulating.

No, that's a common misconception. Akonadi is a just common data access
library that also caches data for efficiency, the underlying data
storage remains unchaged, i.e. the usual maildir or ical files.

IIRC it was Kevin that set me straight on that, some time ago.
Unfortunately, the message that the database stuff is only cache hasn't
really made it out as well as it should have, but it's the only reason
I'm still on kmail at all. Otherwise I'd have been gone.

Thanks for continuing to make the difference known.

If the
Akonadi migration screws up, then your underlying data is safe, it's
just your configuration that gets trashed. In extremis you can then
just delete the Akonadi configuration and cache, start clean and
re-import the data.

Which is exactly what I did. And for beta, which I'm generally
comfortable with and which appears to be where the akonadified kmail is
now, in practice, it's not TOO bad. But the experience definitely needs
to be improved before it's ready for the masses. And... I'm still afraid
that mail can get lost after it's cached but before it's properly maildir
stored, with my experience not being much reassurance in that regard,
even tho in this case I /was/ dealing with the old data, so /did/ have
the ability to simply delete and reimport, when things went bad.

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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

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