I have to say "metoo" I have all these problems and one more Automatic filtering incoming mails doesn't work at all, I have to select new messages and apply filters manually. And the migration process has been terrible. On Tuesday 31 January 2012 13:59:24 Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Tuesday 31 January 2012 12:53:41 Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Is anybody using KMail2, or has everyone given up on it? > > I'm still using it --- you're not alone. :-) > > > I've asked several questions about it, > > eg I cannot create top-level folders, > > I can only add a "metoo". I can create a subfolder no problem, but I confirm > that top-level doesn't work. > > > there are curious sub-folders created when migrating from KMail, > > Back when I migrated my mail it somehow did work, and I haven't tried since. > Although I remember I had some trouble finding out precisely *how* to > migrate, ie. how to change the default local mail folder. > > > the Tools=>Find Messages facility does not seem to work. > > Metoo. But I rarely use the search, if ever. When I need it, I open a > terminal, and do a > > grep -r searchphrase ~/mymail > > :-) > : > > I just wondered if the reason I haven't had any responses > > Maybe nobody has anything helpful to say? ;-) > > As for myself, note that my usage of mail client is quite simplistic with > well-organized mail subfolders, so I rarely need to create a top-level > maildir, or perform searches. I didn't know these problems existed until I > saw your post and tested. > > > is that everyone has gone back to the previous version of KMail? > > Is that even possible?! Anyway, no, I'm waiting for KDE4.8 to arrive to F16 > stable --- that has a fix for the "not filtering sent mail" bug, which is > basically the only thing bugging me with KMail2. Hopefully some of the bugs > you mentioned are also fixed. > > AFAIK, most KMail2 bugs and terrible functionality regressions came about > when the actual control over the e-mail storage was delegated to akonadi. > Back when the old KMail was handling mail storage on its own, everything > was smooth, fast and Just Worked. But since akonadi took control over > e-mail storage... > > ...I see duplicate new messages all over the place --- when I click on the > first, something wakes up in the background and the second copy disappears > after a few seconds (but not always)... > > ...there are "ghost" e-mails --- the number of unread messages next to some > folders reports 1 or 2 unread messages, but there aren't any inside... > > ...search doesn't work... > > ...often it is necessary to "update folder" from the folder's popup menu > (whatever that updating means) or otherwise some messages get lost in the > "limbo" somewhere and don't get listed inside a directory... > > ...during the (POP3) download of e-mails from the server, messages get into > the inbox, then get automatically filtered to various subfolders, then get > back into inbox again and finally get filtered into subfolders once more, > before settling down --- the whole process takes several seconds of > shuffling messages back and forth, with intensive cpu activity... > > ...deleting a message from a folder takes a whole second to complete, and > cpu spikes during that time... > > ...and so on... ;-) > > All in all, IMHO the move to akonadi was a Bad Idea --- I have a feeling > that KMail2 itself is not responsible for any of the above issues. Rather, > akonadi seems to be handling e-mail in a very unoptimized way. The old > KMail handled all this on its own, in a much better, cleaner and faster > way. But due to someone's idea of "integration of e-mail with the rest of > KDE", all mail handling has been moved to an akonadi database --- a "cannon > to kill a fly" scenario. I see no practical benefit, while functionality > has been degraded several times over. > > But I can live with it, for now. I'm too used to KMail's user interface, and > migrating to another client is not worth the time to relearn&customize it > to my preference. > > Waiting for 4.8 and hoping for the best... :-) > > HTH, :-) > Marko > > > > > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list > kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org -- Wbr Nikita _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
