Re: akonadi - problems and more
On Thu 11 Nov 2021 at 19:53:18 (+0100), Hans wrote:
> please apologize if I am too rough and direct. But since the launch of akonadi
> years ago in kmail and other applications, I have the feeling, that the whole
> akonadi stuff is far away from the quality of debian.
>
> So even today, there is an issue (which I already files a bug for), that
> akonadi can not be used. Means also, kmail can not be used. Means also, when
> kmail is started (and akonadi is sstarted automatically with it by force), the
> whole computer can not be used (akonadi fills memory, then swap, then freezes,
> then hast to hard switched off).
>
> And that is not all, akonadi-indexing-daemon is crashing, then restarts,
> crashes again, restarts, crashes again and so on.
>
> Workaround is, to set the binary to --- --- --- (000 000 000).
>
> Ok, it is linux and free, but it looks for me, that no one cares of akonadi.
> If you are on testing, a new version is released and maybe it fixes things,
> but if you are on stable, you have lost. I am watching this for years now, and
> I am on Debian since 2.2, this is a very loooong time.
>
> IMO this is not good atitude and should be improved. And I read in other
> forens, that many people think like me.
>
> Please excuse, I do not want to mourne too much, but it also should be allowed
> to openly tell thinks, that are bad.
>
> If you would ask me, akonadi should be abandoned due to its bad quality, but I
> found no way, to get rid of it, as many packages depend to kaonadi packages.
>
> Again, please don't gruntle too much over me, maybe I did not always find the
> correct English idiom, but see this more as a feedback of someone who dares to
> say what others think.
>
> Except for akonadi (at the moment),I also must say, debian does a very great
> job, one, where other people like Microsoft, Apple, Cisco and many others
> should learn from!
>
> Thanks for not killing me!
I've no reason to kill you—I don't use any of the software mentioned
above—but I thought you'd migrated to mutt as a mail client.
I've added a post to your mutt thread, which should help in locating
the cause of your problem.
Cheers,
David.
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