Looking for input from Kontact users

[Heiner Markert]

Hi,

I experience the following bugs:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292210
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286036
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277905
and
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285743
with all KDE 4.7.X and 4.8.X kontact clients.

The last bug renders the calendar component useless to me, as it introduces a bug that displays repeating events created with an older/other (e.g. horde!) client at the wrong time in either summer- or winter time.
Furthermore, there are massive encoding problems with kjots, such that notes created with e35 get not displayed correctly in recent KDE, and vice versa.

After discovering the above mentioned bugs, I gave up with recent kontact and switched the clients back to kontact from KDE 3.5.10, which is available from opensuse in their current 12.1 release. This works quite stable, with DIMAP on NFSv4 home directory not being a problem.

When I started using kolab/kontact about 4 years ago (KDE 3.5), everything worked rock-solid and stable. Unfortunately, this does not seem to hold with current kontact versions.

Regards
Heiner

Am Thursday 08 December 2011 15:58:37 schrieb ITSEF Admin:
> Hi all,
> 
> This plea for input goes to all folks out there who are using the Kontact 
> client in conjunction with Kolab - I am very curious as to your experiences 
> and environments, as our own experience with Kontact is extremely bad. Hence, 
> I'm looking for anything that could possibly help to alleviate the 
> situation - short of migrating to another mail/groupware solution... The 
> things I'm interested in:
> 
> - What version of Kontact are you using (e35, "the one that came with the 
> distribution", ...)?
> - On which platform and with how many users?
> - How are your home directories organised (NFS mounted, local, .....)?
> - Do you use DIMAP only or the split IMAP/DIMAP set-up?
> - What are your experiences with Kontact with regard to
>   * stability (crashes...)
>   * reliability (lost mail, lost appointments, ....)
>   * overall "good behaviour"
> 
> 
> A bit of background from my side: We are using Kontact e35 from Kolab, 
> repackaged for use under Kubuntu 10.04LTS - which means a KDE 3.5.x Kontact 
> running under KDE4. All our home directories are mounted on the workstations 
> via NFS4 and we only have a few dozen users. As the performance of DIMAP on 
> NFS mounted home directories has proven to be desastrous in the past, we are 
> using IMAP for mail and DIMAP for groupware only.
> Overall, Kontact has proven to be very crashprone for many (though not all) of 
> our users and also has the tendency to show erratic behaviour (mails that 
> seem to be empty, mails that were once deleted and show up again, slow-downs, 
> you name it). Most of these affect a large number of our users (though, 
> again, not all) and most of the time they are fixed by throwing away the IMAP 
> index files. Any attempts in figuring out patterns for reproducing the 
> problems to provide the developers with useful input have failed so far, as 
> have attempts to figure out why some users are affected and others are not. 
> For those that *are* affected, throwing away index files has almost become a 
> habit, but it only helps for a while. Same goes for ditching the complete KDE 
> configuration - it helps, but not for too long.
> Things in fact have gotten so bad that we are considering a migration... :-( 
> Does any of this sound familiar to anyone out there - or are we just the 
> unlucky ones? :-}
> 
> Thank you in advance for any input!
> 
> Reagards,
> 
> Thomas