My experience with Kontact, Addressbook and Akonadi

[Mark Greenwood]

On Friday 14 May 2010 07:13:49 Valter Mura wrote:
> sabato 8 maggio 2010 hai scritto:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I want to share some experience as stated in the subject, I know one of the
> > most annoying issue are the problems with the new management of data.
> > 
> > First of all, I put the Akonadi tray in my System tray and I start Akonadi
> > from there. It gets me a warning regarding the outgoing messages folder not
> > found, but I don't care, I suppose it checks in .local/share/local-mail and
> > Kmail currently uses another path and folder (.kde/share/apps/ect, ect).
> 
> And this has been solved pointing the Agent "Local folders" to the folder 
> where real mail is stored (.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail)
> 
> 
Would anyone from the Kubuntu team care to comment on how it is acceptable to release something so utterly broken? I've just spent the best part of a morning trying to get this stuff to work. In the end I've just given up. I'll have to live without an address book - I did get the addressbook to work by following this thread, but that had the side effect of making Kopete lose all its account settings every time I logged out. *sigh*.

Mark