Am 29.11.2011 23:39, schrieb Roy Dragseth:
I've been following the threads about the problems with Kmail2
and was kinda
worried before upgrading to F16. And right enough, I had two days of post-
traumatic flashbacks to the KDE3-KDE4 transition, but after som trial and error
I've found it rather good. Some quirks, sure, but in my experience they are
more related to akonadi and kwallet than Kmail itself:
o akonadi doesn't like suspend/resumes on my laptop. I need to restart it
every time. After a akonadi restart kmail can read mail again, if you don't
restart kmail will hang and show the "Fetching folder...." screen forever.
I don't use suspend/resume on my desktop machine (this is a no-go for
NFS driven clients), so no clue here.
o sometimes the kwalletd will bomb out (claiming to be open, but contain no
user/passwd info) and thus kmail will hang on fetching mail. A Disable
kwallet - Apply - Enable kwallet - Apply cycle in System Settings will bring
things back into order again.
I use kerberos to authenticate so no wallet in the way.
o often the Next/Prev Message in the Go menu are grayed out and you cannot
jump to the next message with the keyboard. Selecting another message or
folder with the mouse brings things back in order again.
I never saw this. But my kmail2 experience is limited to three days.
Trying to convert the Kmail1 mail caches was a no-go, I deleted all local
caches and setup everything fresh. I'm using imap exclusively and do all
filtering with procmail on the server side so it didn't matter, this might not
be an option for people using local mail folders...
Same for me. I tried kmail2 somewhere in March this year and did run the
migration with many lost mails. My tip: If you can make a clean new
start with kmail2, esp. with IMAP and server side filtering.
Only "Problem" I have: My global search in kmail2 is not working as
expected. I have about hundred mails with a specific sender but
searching for the sender brings only one mail.
So, all in all, kmail2 was better than feared for my use.
Definitely. There are some things to learn (fine tuning nepomuk and
akonadi) but nothing bad.
Martin
Thanks for all the good work done by the maintainers,
r.