Hi,

I built KDE 4.4 RC1 yesterday and now I want to install KMail, but my package manager wants everything rebuilt with semantic desktop support. Is that a hard dependency now or did the packagers make a mistake?

Also, does KMail use Akonadi for mail yet? Do I also need it?

I just need something to receive, view, and send emails :\

Thanks in advance!

KMail uses Akonadi for some of its addressbook integration, e.g. distribution list expanding.
It is not yet using it for mail access.

Searching in Akonadi is handled through Nepomuk since this is what it is intended for and good at.
Some parts of the address book handling code might be based on performing searches, so this could be the cause of it being a dependency as well

Cheers,
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I understand the idea of Akonadi - it will be a pretty nice thing once it actually starts being used where it's needed.

But how is Nepomuk grinding on my hard drive going to help me search the emails on my IMAP server?!

Nepomuk integration in Akonadi is handled differently than the file indexing which causes lots of disk activity.

Akonadi has a set of Nepomuk specific helper processes that forward some of the data which passes through Akonadi to Nepomuk.
They are usually referred to as "Nepomuk feeders".

In case of mails thing like From/To/Subject etc. of mails you've listed through Akonadi, contacts an Akonadi client has viewed and so on.

See http://thomasmcguire.wordpress.com/2010 ... n-kmail-2/ for examples how this can be used in the newly developed KMail2 client.

Cheers,
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