> This weekend I switched to kde 4.7. Since kmail itself didn't even
> start, I moved my .kde4 directory somewhere else to backup it and
> started from scratch. After a lot of configuration issues I got kmail2
> to run, but the kaddressbook is still unusable for me. I could migrate
> my old kde3 addressbook, but after a while akonadi forgot about it, and
> also changes made to it by testing where lost. Last but not least group
> mailing still doesn't work.

> Then, my computer has been busy quite a lot of CPU time with some
> indexing stuff (and I've already switched of strigi, which I never
> needed since I don't know what it does for me, and I'm not interested in
> it; the only "file indexing" I need and use for years is locate), I
> decided to make kde 4.7 as akonadi free as possible since I like kde 4
> in principle, mostly because it's quite nicely configurable to what I
> like, and except akonadi, I could switch off everything I don't need.

> So I deinstalled as much akonadi stuff as I could (using yast since my
> Linux distri is opensuse 11.4), including all PIM related packages and
> anything else which depends on it. Some akonadi packages seem still to
> be necessary to use some stuff I like to keep (including kdm ;-)).
> Finally, I also deinstalled everything related to tracker. Now, I've a
> pretty nice desktop environment which keeps the resources of my computer
> for the real work I like to do (mostly program testing for my research
> and LaTeXing).

> For mail and news, I'm finally using thunderbird with the lightning
> plugin for my time scheduling. The migration of all my mails from kmail
> has been a bit tough, since I had to copy it to my IMAP mail server and
> then back to the local folders of thunderbird since I like to have all
> my e-mails local. The addressbook and calendar where very easy to import.

> --
> Hendrik van Hees
> Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies
> D-60438 Frankfurt am Mainhttp://theory.gsi.de/~vanhees/faq/index.html

> > Since kde 4.x kmail, knode, and mostly kaddressbook (sometimes also
> > korganizer) are quite unstable and not really useful. For quite some
> > time, I've been using the kde 4.x desktop environment but kmail & Co.
> > from kde3.

> > This weekend I switched to kde 4.7. Since kmail itself didn't even
> > start, I moved my .kde4 directory somewhere else to backup it and
> > started from scratch. After a lot of configuration issues I got kmail2
> > to run, but the kaddressbook is still unusable for me. I could migrate
> > my old kde3 addressbook, but after a while akonadi forgot about it, and
> > also changes made to it by testing where lost. Last but not least group
> > mailing still doesn't work.

> > Then, my computer has been busy quite a lot of CPU time with some
> > indexing stuff (and I've already switched of strigi, which I never
> > needed since I don't know what it does for me, and I'm not interested in
> > it; the only "file indexing" I need and use for years is locate), I
> > decided to make kde 4.7 as akonadi free as possible since I like kde 4
> > in principle, mostly because it's quite nicely configurable to what I
> > like, and except akonadi, I could switch off everything I don't need.

> > So I deinstalled as much akonadi stuff as I could (using yast since my
> > Linux distri is opensuse 11.4), including all PIM related packages and
> > anything else which depends on it. Some akonadi packages seem still to
> > be necessary to use some stuff I like to keep (including kdm ;-)).
> > Finally, I also deinstalled everything related to tracker. Now, I've a
> > pretty nice desktop environment which keeps the resources of my computer
> > for the real work I like to do (mostly program testing for my research
> > and LaTeXing).

> > For mail and news, I'm finally using thunderbird with the lightning
> > plugin for my time scheduling. The migration of all my mails from kmail
> > has been a bit tough, since I had to copy it to my IMAP mail server and
> > then back to the local folders of thunderbird since I like to have all
> > my e-mails local. The addressbook and calendar where very easy to import.

> > --
> > Hendrik van Hees
> > Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies
> > D-60438 Frankfurt am Mainhttp://theory.gsi.de/~vanhees/faq/index.html

> I faced the same problem and came up with a different solution. I
> downloaded and installed Claws-Mail. In some ways it is easier to use,
> such as Bogofilter. I no longer have to run a special script each
> night to update Bogofilter.

> The creation of filters is a bit fussier. And it doesn't have the
> search function of Kmail. But I don't have to fuss with
> KDEWallet and of course Akonadi is no longer in play. Recreating all
> my folders and filters was tedious, but it is done.

> Since that time I have learned how to turn of all those irrelevant
> error messages from Akonadi. But I have swiitched and will stay
> switched now.

> I wonder if the KDE developers are aware of the customer
> dissatisfaction with Akonadi and indeed with KDE 4 in general. I
> switched my GUI to XFCE earlier. I still load KDE in my Salix
> (Slackware derivative) system just for a few
> utilities---Ksnapshot, Krita and Okular (though I could live without
> Okular, I have Adobe Reader.)

> I have to keep a Slackware 12.2 partition (KDE 3.5) available just to
> get to Quanta Plus. It was never updated to work with KDE 4. Indeed I
> would be happy with Slackware 12.2, but critical (to me) software
> packages depend on a very recent edition of QT, and I am not game to
> go through library update hell manually.

> John Culleton

> that's one of the reasons why I moved to Sylpheed

>> On 08/16/2011 06:44 AM, Hendrik van Hees wrote:
>>> Since kde 4.x kmail, knode, and mostly kaddressbook (sometimes also
>>> korganizer) are quite unstable and not really useful. For quite some
>>> time, I've been using the kde 4.x desktop environment but kmail &
>>> Co. from kde3.

>> that's one of the reasons why I moved to Sylpheed

> I have never had a problem with knode under kde4.

>> bad sector wrote:

>>> On 08/16/2011 06:44 AM, Hendrik van Hees wrote:
>>>> Since kde 4.x kmail, knode, and mostly kaddressbook (sometimes also
>>>> korganizer) are quite unstable and not really useful. For quite some
>>>> time, I've been using the kde 4.x desktop environment but kmail &
>>>> Co. from kde3.

>>> that's one of the reasons why I moved to Sylpheed

>> I have never had a problem with knode under kde4.

> Have you found a way to copy articles into local folders?

>> Pinnerite wrote:

>>> bad sector wrote:

>>>> On 08/16/2011 06:44 AM, Hendrik van Hees wrote:
>>>>> Since kde 4.x kmail, knode, and mostly kaddressbook (sometimes
>>>>> also korganizer) are quite unstable and not really useful. For
>>>>> quite some time, I've been using the kde 4.x desktop environment
>>>>> but kmail & Co. from kde3.

>>>> that's one of the reasons why I moved to Sylpheed

>>> I have never had a problem with knode under kde4.

>> Have you found a way to copy articles into local folders?

> I can certainly 'save as'. Does that count?

>> Ian Gay wrote:

>>> Pinnerite wrote:

>>>> bad sector wrote:

>>>>> On 08/16/2011 06:44 AM, Hendrik van Hees wrote:
>>>>>> Since kde 4.x kmail, knode, and mostly kaddressbook (sometimes
>>>>>> also korganizer) are quite unstable and not really useful. For
>>>>>> quite some time, I've been using the kde 4.x desktop
environment
>>>>>> but kmail & Co. from kde3.

>>>>> that's one of the reasons why I moved to Sylpheed

>>>> I have never had a problem with knode under kde4.

>>> Have you found a way to copy articles into local folders?

>> I can certainly 'save as'. Does that count?

> Nope. In the last version of knode that worked (kde3) you could
drag
> articles from the article list pane to local folders listed at the
> bottom of the group list pane. In spite of several bug reports,
they
> have not bothered to fix this regression in kde4.