On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 18:25 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Saturday 27 February 2010 05:39:26 pm Mike Cloaked wrote: > > I am afraid that I have lost patience with this. As far as my own > > view goes - mail is one of the few absolutely essential functions of > > any computer system/desktop/laptop/netboook, and any update that > > breaks a working mail setup is not excusable. Any update to email > > systems should be very carefully and thoroughly checked in testing > > before it goes live - period. > > > > I have abandoned kmail and it would take a lot to get me back to it > > now. I now use Thunderbird exclusively - maybe other people will stay > > with kmail if that has been their favourite client up till now and > > hope that the problems get solved. However I now do what Mail-Lists > > does and run a dovecot imap server on every machine - and run a filter > > to move all incoming mail from the external server (pop) to the local > > imap server - and that way if there is a problem with the email client > > then I can just switch to another client and still see all the same > > mail very simply indeed. Also some email clients have better specific > > features than others and in the even of a serious disaster such as > > appears to have happened with the akonadi/nepomuk/kmail fiasco then at > > least I can simply close down kmail and open up Thunderbird and I am > > back in business - who knows how many people may never return to kmail > > after their experiences this week? > > I am yet to see any problem with KMail/akonadi/nepomuk on this fully updated > F12/64bit/KDE. Everything works as expected, and my KMail experience has > actually improved since KDE4.4 update came out. It starts faster, is more > responsive, and font size choices are more eye-friendly. > > The fiasco you talk about seems to have hit only a couple of people. My guess > is that this has to do something with your own (customized?) > environment/system/mysql/whatever, and you have hit some untested corner- > case... In general KMail in KDE4.4 apparently Just Works. > > This very e-mail is being written in KMail. ;-) > > Best, :-) > Marko > Hi There is most definitely a problem somewhere with kmail but appears to be non-fatal for me After a reboot when opening an email file a message saying Akonadi is being started followed by a popup about Nepomuk (attached) After that kmail still seems to view email files OK which is all I use it for. I am using fully update F12 Linux fuerte 2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Feb 19 18:55:03 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux KDM and XFCE John
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