Re: KMail locks up

On Tue June 15 2010, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> 
> It is absolutely proper behavior. Akonadi is a background service that
> is completely independent of KMail. KAddressBook and KOrganizer also use
> Akonadi and I guess you wouldn't want to start KMail every time you want
> to look up an address (in KAddressBook) or put an appointment in your
> calendar (in KOrganizer). The event notifier (korgac) also uses Akonadi.
> I suppose you would want to be reminded about upcoming appointments even
> if KMail was not running.
> 
> Maybe reading
>   http://community.kde.org/Promo/Strategy/Akonadi
> will help clear up what Akonadi is and what it is not.
> 
Well, considering I don't open KAB separately from KMail and don't use 
Korganizer or anything else, except KMail (I really have no need for a full 
Outlook "clone" at home.)

At this point inertia has set in enough that I don't want to change email 
clients, but if this keeps happening, I might have to. I certainly do not 
want to lose my existing emails.

I find it hard to believe that it's proper for Akonadi to hose things up 
when I don't shut it down at the end of the day. Either Akonadi needs to 
share resources or it needs to shut down when the X session started by VNC 
gets shut down.