https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377070
Bug ID: 377070 Summary: Kmail emptied inbox, all emails deleted!!! Product: kmail2 Version: unspecified Platform: Gentoo Packages OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: critical Priority: NOR Component: general Assignee: kdepim-b...@kde.org Reporter: wlt...@o-sinc.com Target Milestone: --- KMail Version 5.4.2 KDE Frameworks 5.31.0 Qt 5.7.1 (built against 5.7.1) This is NOT the 1st time this has happened. Every email in my inbox was deleted for NO reason. This seems to be some issue between the emails on disk and what ever is in the akanodi database. I am SO sick of issues with Kmail2 and email. This whole using a db backend is NOT working and needs to end. People should have a choice on using akonadi, mysql, and any db. Emails that are on DISK should NEVER be deleted unless I am deleting them. Funny enough emails in my trash remain till I empty the trash. I have lots of folders, lots of filters, lots of emails. I have not had this problem with other folders. I have had other issues with emails from day 1 using kmail2. I am about to go back to gnome and evolution. Kmail is complete garbage!!!! I am a database person. I have worked with database for years. There is NO reason to be integrating email with a database. For all the problems I am experience it is NOT worth any benefit on search etc. I have grep and other fast things if I need to search. My contacts are all messed up because of something that associates names with emails, and does it incorrectly. At ever angle there are problems from the software trying to do things it need not. Features that CANNOT be turned off. This needs to stop!!! Kmail2 needs to be decoupled from this horrible mess that is akonadi. Emails on disk should not disappear and be removed due to some syncing or other issue that clearly comes from the database. Nothing else would remove emails like that. I saw them flashing and re-indexing. I saw that happen to other folders before but never lost emails. Clearly seeing stuff resulting from integration with on disk emails into some sort of database. I do not care what is done with akonadi, but it should NEVER delete emails as part of its syncing operations. This is really unacceptable. I am very displeased all around at how people are doing experimental things with software people will heavily rely on for business, to make a living, etc. An email client should NEVER delete emails unless a person does that or its part of a filter etc. Such serious bugs should NEVER exist. That they result from some database integration and some needless features is unacceptable. The entire point of email software is to receive and store email. If it cannot do that simple function the rest is completely pointless and moot. The most important feature of any email client is to maintain email. No change should ever be made to kmail that could potentially delete an email without a users interaction, unless from a user created filter. There needs to be some serious code review and much better QA. This is the WORST email software I have ever used. If I did not have so many folders, filters, etc I would switch. Plus to switch means I likely need to switch desktops envs. Only reason I am even running kmail is I left gnome. But I kept using evolution for a while, and wish I never migrated to kmail. I used evolution for over a decade and NEVER once did I have any issue. Nor with Thunderbird ever. I have been using kmail since ~2011. I have hated it ever day since. Many on Gentoo have stopped using it including many developers who maintain KDE on Gentoo. I do like many aspects of kmail. But I absolutely HATE akonadi, any integration, etc. That NEEDS to be optional seriously. This joke about rapidly developing PIM applications etc. It is pointless. There are no other KDE PIM based email clients. The one that was developed as an example in 2008 never went further and there has been no others in almost a decade. Please reconsider this direction. Akonadi and any efforts there are NOT improving the quality of Kmail. They are in fact making it horrible unreliable, deleting emails, corrupting others as I have reported in other bugs. So many issues that would not exist if it was not for this akonadi bs. This failed experiment that is akonadi needs to come to an end. If kmail continues to be developed using akonadi and no option to not use a DB backend and just stick to plain files on disk. Then I will definitely move back to evolution or thunderbird. These sorts of problems really should not exist. I have never experienced them or others till kmail. Unacceptable, and needs to change radically!!!! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.