re: viewtopic.php?f=20&t=97754 (a year old thread)

How can I fix KMail? How can I reset , from the ground up, Akonadi, Nepomuk, Strigi, etc. such that mail can be sent and received and local folders are once again searchable and stay searchable. I don't want it to index one day and become so much used disk space the next (as has happened to me since kmail2 came along).

I am running the KDE 4.8.5 that installed with openSUSE 12.2.

I have tried the steps in the above thread, and threads to which it refers. I have tried resetting mail. I have tried resetting desktop search through the control panel. I have tried resetting Akonadi. I have tried deleting ALL Akonadi, Nepomuk, etc. files, caches, etc. and restarting. I have tried removing and adding back agents through the Akonadi console. Despite all this and many more suggestions that I Google'd up, my mail remains unsearchable. That's twelve years of KMail archives about as searchable as the spiral notebooks on my shelf. And that's on a good day. On a bad day some filter will remove the message body from all incoming emails.

KMail 3 was an excellent client, key to my choice of KDE over Gnome. I don't care about calendars or birthday reminders or news feeds. I have only marginal use for an address book. But I need mail and I need searchable mail. Currently my "solution" has been to switch to Thunderbird. I don't like its UI. I miss KMail, but at least Thunderbird is searchable.

johnthad wrote:re: viewtopic.php?f=20&t=97754 (a year old thread)

How can I fix KMail? How can I reset , from the ground up, Akonadi, Nepomuk, Strigi, etc. such that mail can be sent and received and local folders are once again searchable and stay searchable. I don't want it to index one day and become so much used disk space the next (as has happened to me since kmail2 came along).

I am running the KDE 4.8.5 that installed with openSUSE 12.2.

I have tried the steps in the above thread, and threads to which it refers. I have tried resetting mail. I have tried resetting desktop search through the control panel. I have tried resetting Akonadi. I have tried deleting ALL Akonadi, Nepomuk, etc. files, caches, etc. and restarting. I have tried removing and adding back agents through the Akonadi console. Despite all this and many more suggestions that I Google'd up, my mail remains unsearchable. That's twelve years of KMail archives about as searchable as the spiral notebooks on my shelf. And that's on a good day. On a bad day some filter will remove the message body from all incoming emails.

KMail 3 was an excellent client, key to my choice of KDE over Gnome. I don't care about calendars or birthday reminders or news feeds. I have only marginal use for an address book. But I need mail and I need searchable mail. Currently my "solution" has been to switch to Thunderbird. I don't like its UI. I miss KMail, but at least Thunderbird is searchable.

AFAIK any 4.8.x version does not support search and/or autocompletion of mail address from address books. It worked in 4.7.x and once more works in 4.9.x

sinclair wrote:

johnthad wrote:re: viewtopic.php?f=20&t=97754 (a year old thread)

How can I fix KMail? How can I reset , from the ground up, Akonadi, Nepomuk, Strigi, etc. such that mail can be sent and received and local folders are once again searchable and stay searchable. I don't want it to index one day and become so much used disk space the next (as has happened to me since kmail2 came along).

I am running the KDE 4.8.5 that installed with openSUSE 12.2.

I have tried the steps in the above thread, and threads to which it refers. I have tried resetting mail. I have tried resetting desktop search through the control panel. I have tried resetting Akonadi. I have tried deleting ALL Akonadi, Nepomuk, etc. files, caches, etc. and restarting. I have tried removing and adding back agents through the Akonadi console. Despite all this and many more suggestions that I Google'd up, my mail remains unsearchable. That's twelve years of KMail archives about as searchable as the spiral notebooks on my shelf. And that's on a good day. On a bad day some filter will remove the message body from all incoming emails.

KMail 3 was an excellent client, key to my choice of KDE over Gnome. I don't care about calendars or birthday reminders or news feeds. I have only marginal use for an address book. But I need mail and I need searchable mail. Currently my "solution" has been to switch to Thunderbird. I don't like its UI. I miss KMail, but at least Thunderbird is searchable.

AFAIK any 4.8.x version does not support search and/or autocompletion of mail address from address books. It worked in 4.7.x and once more works in 4.9.x

I don't want to search address books. As I said, I have only marginal interest in an address book (what few names my KMail account deals with I can keep in my head). What I do need it to be able to search the messages' contents, the 's' option. Like find all messages with "Florida proposal" in the body or all messages with NullPointerException in the subject. I have 12+ years of emails and I need to be able to search their content. Yes, I have these messages sorted in to various folders but that still means I might have to scroll through several hundred messages when someone asks what was the resolution of fubar in 2009.

Search works in KDEPIM 4.9, as far as I can remember.

einar wrote:Search works in KDEPIM 4.9, as far as I can remember.

At my case (and I'm far from be alone here - search bugs and see versions and votes) it doesn't. Sometimes something does work