Hi! As it is important to be fair and open what could have been a effect of an unusual combination of software versions in Debian at that time:
Martin Steigerwald - 11.06.20, 11:50:53 CEST: > Another community goal aside from fixing up the chat software > situation within KDE could be to either fix Akonadi or replace it by > something that works… […] > Frustrating to use KMail with Akonadi 5.14.1 (20.04) > > https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kdepim-users/2020-June/013315.html What was the most frustrating about all of this was a regression with Akonadi 20.04 in Debian back then: [Akonadi] [Bug 422336] kmail: the access and reading of the received messages is often very slow https://bugs.kde.org/422336 I still do not know what caused it and how it got fixed. But with Qt 5.14.2 (instead of the former Qt 5.12 in Debian) and probably other updates in Debian this regression is gone. Synchronizing mail folders is much, much faster again. To the extent that despite all the other issues that are still unreleased KMail is basically usable again. Thanks to everyone who may have been involved in the fix. Maybe… it was that Akonadi 20.04 did not like Qt 5.12 or maybe it was whatever… I am not sure what the Qt minimum version for Akonadi 20.04 is… but I would bet that our Debian packagers respected it. I did not follow up on recent mails on the thread, cause I had the impression that my initial mail did not achieve what I intended to achieve with it – except for one guy offering to help development of KDEPIM and Akonadi! Well which is quite something… if I consider it! Also while I still think "akonadictl fsck" is a thing a user should never have to deal with… – no Outlook is not a reference for me and Evolution, Thunderbird and others do not have anything like that as far as I am aware, also Firefox does not have it for its countless SQLite databases, … – it is only one aspect of what I brought up and I saw no benefit in discussing that out to the end. The other issues I mentioned remain, but are not as severe now that the dire performance regression has disappeared. I remain with the best wishes for the KDEPIM team and hope that some day even those who felt hurt after reading my mail can understand that in no way I meant it personal. What I was going for was to find ways to support the KDEPIM project, but it appears that the frustration I experienced did not really help to achieve that goal. So if there are any hurt feelings left… I apologize. It was never my intention to hurt anyone. That all written I also stand with my assertion that the other issues I mentioned are all still there and the KDEPIM project IMHO can really benefit from some community support or setting improving it as a goal on the next goal round. I also still assert that no mail of mine in this thread has been disrespectful to the KDEPIM developers. Maybe one day there can be a constructive discussion about how to support the KDEPIM project. For now I let it sit as it is. Best, -- Martin
