On Thursday, 2010-05-06, Michael Schuerig wrote: > On Wednesday 05 May 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In 4.3, this is not true. From what I hear on upstream mailing > > lists, this won't be true in 4.5. Upstream is already aware and > > working on the issue, but it falls under "new feature" so it won't > > be included in the 4.4.x line. > > Do you have a pointer to the discussion? > > As far as the safety of your data is concerned, none of your emails are > stored in MySQL (yet). Mail storage is still in the file system, Akonadi > is only used for contacts. > > That said, I'd be much happier myself without having to run yet another > database server on my machine. Right now there are "global" instances of > PostgreSQL and MySQL (personal and for work); on top of that, for each > logged-in user, Akonadi runs a private MySQL server as well as a > virtuoso server. Incidentally, virtuoso is a SQL database in its own > right, persumably fully capable of completing supplanting MySQL in this > case. Akonadi can be configure to use a global instance, the default is to run a private one purely because the other option requires database admin priviledges to set it up. Virtuoso indeed looks like a solution to go forward with, unfortunately it currently has some problems with the combination of ODBC and the respective QSql driver. Cheers, Kevin
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