Version: 2.1.0 (using KDE 4.6.4) OS: Linux Please make the option to fully index mails disabled by default or add an option to disable it globally. Reproducible: Always
why ?
I thought that would mean to create a index table for fulltext search. This is in most cases unneeded and wastes a lot of space. If that index is stored in the akonadi stuff, it would create a bigger crash risk. Sorry to say, but akonadi and its utilities are unstable as hell and they cannot be run over NFS (which is what I use here). But obviously this checkbox is also for destroying email content (when unchecked). I manually unchecked that and after restart ALL my email content is gone. Only the headers were left. Luckily I have a backup. What the hell did the developers think when creating this checkbox?
It would be nice if someone with the privileges could increase this issue to serverity critical because of the data loss
I am absolutely not sure, but isn't indexing done in Nepomuk? So when I disable Nepomuk, indexing should be disabled too?
One possible reason to have this option is when you have gmail imap account - then it doesn't make sense to index each e-mail several times in different folders "labels", indexing the "All" folder is enough. BTW - does anyone know where this option is set in config files?
> or add an option to disable it globally. That option exists in KDE 4.8 (in System Settings / Desktop Search)
I just gave kmail another try after about 4 years. This issue is still there, disabling desktop search and email search are 2 things. I just want to disable the email search and keep the desktop search. If I would use kmail again (very unlikely at the moment, not just because of this bug) I need to do it for every of my ~500 folders. This is a no go.