Re: kmail sigh

On Friday 2 February 2018 4:50:36 AM IST Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> On Monday, January 29, 2018 10:11:09 AM AKST Ianseeks wrote:
> > Try converting kmail to use postgresql, its a lot faster.  It doesn't
> > eliminate akonadi issues like duplicates but i seem to get a hell of lot
> > less of them and the "retrieving folders..." issue seems to have
> > disappeared.  If you have to do the "akonadictl fsck/vacuum", you'll find
> > that is so fast compared to running it using mysql
> 
> I would like to try that, but am afraid of all the information I'd lose,
> since there is not export/import facility for Akonadi. Do you lose all your
> read/ unread/important statuses? Or are those stored in the maildir file?
> What else do you lose?

You could use a local dovecot instance instead of keeping mail in maildir. 

For me, that setup hasn't lost a mail in few years.

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Regards
 Shridhar