Y'all,
I am well aware this isn't a complaint about Mageia. In fact, I love Mageia!. My biggest disappointment specifically about Mageia at the moment is the adverse impact of its relative decline in popularity compared to other distributions.
But Kmail... the bane of my existence.
The problem is this: Kmail is the best email software I can find. When it works, it's fabulous. And it *used* to work really super well. It was completely functional and the back end (maildir and all) worked perfectly. Enter Akonadi. What a colossal piece of trash. And now Kmail requires Akonadi to function at all.
Thankfully, my data files are still there. The file system handles it just as a robust linux file system should. Dolphin can spit out the answer to what I'm dealing with in a few short seconds: 273725 files in 244 sub folders taking up 18.3 gigs of space. Kmail (more specifically Akonadi) on the other hand can't. In fact, letting it run *overnight* isn't enough.
Yesterday, I upgraded from MGA6 (which was problematic *only* because of this awful Kmail+Akonadi arrangement) to MGA7. The upgrade itself went great. Then I loaded Kmail. Don't know why, but it seems like it had to think real hard about all my email again. I let it crunch over night. It never finished. Logging out and back in stops the CPU/disk usage, and I've had mixed results getting my inbox to load (It did finally load at one point). I thought maybe I should unload some emails out of it, so I created a new folder to move more old emails into. I tried moving a few thousand emails into that folder. It choked. On 500. It didn't even make it to 1000.
What utter destruction of the formerly best email program for Linux. I've complained about this before but it seems there are no good solutions. Again, I know this isn't a Mageia problem and I should probably go complain at the Kmail team, but I do wonder if any of you have any leads on another solution? Is there an email program that supports maildir and will run with more than a few thousand (or hundreds of thousands of) emails? I don't think that's asking to much, really.
Sorry for the rant. Thanks for letting me put these bits here.
V-