Re: How do i "rebuild" a *working* akonadi configuration?

On Thursday 16 January 2014 14:36:28 Mathias Homann wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> Is it just me, or is kdepim / akonadi right now simply broken beyond all
> hope for repair?
> 
> Out of the blue on my wife's KDE account, kontact starts with all imap
> ressources "offline", and no /toggle online/offline" revives them.
> After much poking and prodding, I decide to get rid of all of her akonadi
> config, and set ip up fro scratch.. And there's the point where the pain
> starts:
> 
> - Parts of the configuration are scattered over three different folder
> structures in the user's ~, and I can't for the heck of me think of a *good*
> reason for that.
> - just because the user has logged out does not mean at all that all the
> various akondai-related "agents" are actually terminated
> - after finally finding all parts of the configuration, and deleting them, i
> log my wife's account back in, and what do i find in KDE control cventer in
> "personal data"... Three, four, five (insert random number) dead maildir
> ressources out of nowhere.
> - at some point in this fun i had a stage where i could not create agents,
> because akonadi was not running, and i could not start akonadi, because
> there were no agents...
> 
> Am i totally out to lunch here when I assume that this stuff is actually
> supposed to be used by normal users?
> 
> (no)cheers
> MH
> 
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There would appear to be a number of issues with kmail/akonadi in 4.11, and
I am awaiting 4.12 as it is said to include a lot of bug fixes for both
kmail and akonadi.  4.12.1 is out, so I hope that the debian kde team stop 
updating 4.11 and start on 4.12 soon.

David

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