DocB
March 16, 2021, 11:30am
1
Hi,
since the last (large) update ot TW including upgrade to KDE 20.12.3 I’m facing serious issues with my GMX IMAP-account:
It syncs permanently from the server (some 8GB in the Inbox…)
messages that were deleted just come back
these messages can not be marked ‘Read’ (CRTL-R)
some mails do not arrive (but I see them on my cellphone)
akonadictl fsck/vaccum was already done.
Anyone sharing the experience?
Any ideas how to solve?
TIA!
DocB
March 17, 2021, 6:15pm
2
Just for the record: After a couple more fsck/vacuum all mails are in and it works as expected
But I notice it is quite sluggish with an Inbox of 40.000 Mails…
@DocB :
I’m treating my KMail setup with a lot of “tender loving care” –
> akonadictl fsck 2>&1| grep -iE 'found|no RID'
After logging in, before starting Kontact, I wait for this “run at login” script to finsh –
#!/bin/bash
#
# Indicate that Akonadi has completed it's initialisation.
#
# Wait until Akonadi Control is running.
until $( /bin/pidof /usr/bin/akonadi_control ) ]]
do
echo "$(printf '%(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S)T' -1) Waiting for Akonadi Control" >> ~/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log
sleep 10s
done
echo "$(printf '%(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S)T' -1) Akonadi Control is running" >> ~/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log
#
# Wait unti the Akonadi Server is running.
until $( /bin/pidof /usr/bin/akonadiserver ) ]]
do
echo "$(printf '%(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S)T' -1) Waiting for Akonadi Server" >> ~/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log
sleep 10s
done
echo "$(printf '%(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S)T' -1) Akonadi Server is running" >> ~/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log
#
# Wait until the Akonadi Server has finished starting.
sleep 20s
echo "$(printf '%(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S)T' -1) Waited for the Akonadi Server to finish starting" >> ~/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log
#
kdialog --title "Akonadi startup" --passivepopup "Startup completed." 10
## notify-send --icon=dialog-information "Akonadi startup" "Startup completed."
#
I have e-mails occupying 930 MiB in my local KMail directories …
And yes, once every few months I need to run “akonadiconsole” to correct a KMail issue – usually caused by investigating a KMail behaviour issue … >:)
DocB
March 19, 2021, 10:34am
4
dcurtisfra:
@DocB :
I’m treating my KMail setup with a lot of “tender loving care” –
…
After logging in, before starting Kontact, I wait for this “run at login” script to finsh –
…
I have e-mails occupying 930 MiB in my local KMail directories …
And yes, once every few months I need to run “akonadiconsole” to correct a KMail issue – usually caused by investigating a KMail behaviour issue … >:)
Hm, that looks like a workaround. In general no special care was applied for my systems - and I have some 20GB mails in the different mail accounts.
Thanks anyway for sharing!
Until the Akonadi database issues (including the MySQL versus PostgreSQL issues) are resolved, I’m living with my workaround(s) …
[HR][/HR]I still have a gut feeling that, the Akonadi code isn’t clean – the behaviour of the Kontact suite is not really stable – which doesn’t mean to say that, it’s not usable …
DocB
March 19, 2021, 12:09pm
6
dcurtisfra:
Until the Akonadi database issues (including the MySQL versus PostgreSQL issues) are resolved, I’m living with my workaround(s) …
[HR][/HR]I still have a gut feeling that, the Akonadi code isn’t clean – the behaviour of the Kontact suite is not really stable – which doesn’t mean to say that, it’s not usable …
Actually, I like the handling in KMail much more than Thunderbird or Claws (or Notes or Outlook on the proprietary side). We just need to get rid of the annoying bugs and glitches. I keep posting bugs