Re: Jumping ship

On Thursday 01 December 2011 08:01:00 Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> On Thu 01 Dec 2011 00:50:14 NZDT +1300, cr wrote:
> > Current kmail does, but I've read that Kmail2 uses Akonadi.  Now what
> > format Akonadi adopts for its file storage I don't know.
> 
> I don't know what Akonadi does exactly, but I don't have your automatic
> assumption that just because kmail uses akonadi, it suddenly stores its
> emails in akonadi, mysql, some other database, or its own proprietary
> format. Afterall kmail has used akonadi in previous versions too. And
> like I said it must be possible to turn all that extra stuff off for
> those who just want to use email.
> 
> Volker

Okay, I've done a lot more Googling.    It looks as if 
(1)  Kmail (and other Akonadi - using apps) won't run without it.
(2)  Akonadi is just a database/indexing system of sorts

In particular, according to this page:
http://blogs.kde.org/node/4503

"Good, but where is my data if not in the database? This depends on what kind 
of data we are talking about.

1) E-mail:......
In case of POP3, the mails is stored immediately after download in a local 
maildir folder. The actual place of the folder depends on your configuration, 
it can be just as $HOME/Mail, as $HOME/kde./share/apps/kmail/ or 
$HOME/.local/share/.local-mail (for new installations)."

(Brief excerpt only quoted)

So it looks as if the original page I found gave me a misleading impression.    
If Akonadi is just an add-on indexing service I'll quite happily live with 
that.

cr

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