Yeah, i actually have manjaro on the other machine and kmail works there fine as well. So it seems for me that questionable packaging techniques are a factor here but I can't tell the precise details. As for the importance of the akonadi: it is actually a well designed piece of software architecture that simplifies all PIM apps drastically. Removing akonadi from PIM is not only (IMHO) pointless but also prohibitively expensive endeavor. Instead I would try to investigate what is the actual problem with the packaging and try to seek some kind of remedy for it. Paul Brown pisze: > On lunes, 12 de octubre de 2020 11:28:14 (CEST) Marek Kochanowicz wrote: > > Just to be clear, I am using MySQL (mariadb) backend. KMail2 works just > > fine with that. I am on the arch linux though. > > Same here (Manjaro though). Haven't had a problem in several years.