Gene Heskett wrote: > What version of kde? I am using kmail here, without an akonadi instance > visible in htop. But this kmail is 1.9, from the TDE desktop, a fork of > kde at about the 3.5 point, with tons of bugs fixed that kde never had > the time to listen to. It Just Works now. +1 The new kde (as of 4) uses akonadi which uses mysql to handle all kind of pim related stuff.