Considerations for Kubuntu 11.10 and Kmail2

[Valter Mura]

In data gioved� 13 ottobre 2011 10:31:32, Scott Kitterman ha scritto:


> I consider Kmail2/Akonadi to be a disaster in 4.7.  I know it is working for
> some people, but there are a LOT of people having a lot of problems.
> Personally, I had sort of assumed that since this is the second major
> release for Kmail2, it would be generally usable.

I consider Kmail2/Akonadi an "half" disaster.

My considerations follow:

- I finally update my system to 11.10
- When I started Kmail, the Migrator started but failed. So I follow the 
procedure explained in the Kubuntu site and kmail started the migration.
- I had to insert all account password again and to reload/refresh all the 
mail folders contained in my system. The process took almost one day, trapping 
my poor processor into a 100% busy state, for which I feared after that it 
would be surely dead.
- I lost all my (few) filters and I'm trying to rebuild them. 
- My spam is not automatically transferred to my spam folder, I restart the 
spam configuration wizard.
- Kmail2 seems, in its wholeness, slower and heavier than before.
- I haven't lost any mail.


My opinion is that this kind of upgrade is not suitable for production 
machines, nor for newbies, whom can be discouraged to use the KDE environment.

As I have an old machine, I installed the kuuntu-low-fat-settings, but I 
haven't understood well: do the settings apply automatically, or do I have to 
search for them manually?

Ciao
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Valter
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