For years I have used Kmail without problems. I load the emails down on my file server and open them from there - this way I can check my mails from any computer in the network. It has worked without until today. I have upgraded to 13.1 (i586) KDE desktop approx. 3 weeks ago and Kmail still worked afterwards. However now, when I try to open the mail or delete mail it takes ages more than 30 minutes and Kmail is just sitting there. At the bottom right the green slider is going left and right as if indicating the programme is doing anything but nothing happens. A right click for mark message as read does not work either. However I can move the files into different folder and I can open other files from the server (no email) so the connection is not the problem. I just try to open a 3 line text email and it was 17 minutes until it opened. Any ideas how this can be solved - otherwise my email system is useless.
Just a few additional information - the command top gave:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1756 uli 20 0 586256 171584 4824 S 35.16 8.6124 0:59.90 mysqld
4286 uli 20 0 288468 112080 46888 S 33.17 5.625 25:04.47 kmail
1740 uli 20 0 279384 16460 6948 S 21.56 0.826 25:25.22 akonadiserver
685 root 20 0 119520 63788 44352 S 3.317 3.202 4:14.49 Xorg
1589 uli 20 0 527804 103464 32848 S 2.654 5.193 2:51.69 skype
1466 uli 20 0 328892 55180 27832 S 1.990 2.770 2:22.83 kwin
7273 uli 20 0 166016 27284 19168 S 0.995 1.369 0:00.91 konsole
7300 uli 20 0 4916 1448 1032 R 0.332 0.073 0:00.08 top
1 root 20 0 6096 3272 2140 S 0.000 0.164 0:00.87 systemd
So 90% of the CPU time was mysql, kmail and akonadiserver
On 2013-12-16 00:06, fuerstu wrote:
> For years I have used Kmail without problems. I load the emails down on
> my file server and open them from there - this way I can check my mails
> from any computer in the network.
It is more efficient to set up an imap server (dovecot) and store emails
there than using a file server. Then you point any mail client you use
(or several of them) to the server and off you go. If one day you don’t
want to use kmail, just start thunderbird instead. Another day
outlook… Whatever.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
Thanks, robin_listas, but that does not help me at the moment. I need the akonadi server since it tells kmail where the resources are stored but it seems that kmail does not work. I cannot ask kmail to open the emails and come back several hours later to check what is written since it takes so long to open the emails. I will have a look at dovecot (any links will be appreciated) but I need to get kmail working now.
Cheers
Uli
Yes this looks at least similar to this bug but I don’t know how to apply the patch which is listed there as text file. Is there a patched version (.rpm) available?
Yes, in KDE:Release:411. Can you test that? Note that ideally, you should switch completely to that repo, as you’ll have multiple dependency issues otherwise.
Ok, building now only kdepim4 in a separate repo, will post address once it’s done.
Thanks, sumski, I presume when you say switch completely that means all KDE applications or only all of kmail?
Uli
I mean all packages available in the repo. Which is, for KR411 repo, whole SC release. As said in last post, i’m now building kdepim4 in separate repo. The same is valid, that you should switch completely to that repo, but it will contain only a few packages.
Address is
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/sumski:/kde323929/openSUSE_13.1/
To summarize:
Just add the repo in this post, and switch all packages to it. Forgot anything i said about KDE:Release:411 repo =)
When I use this URL and go to Yast View -> Repositories to switch I don’t see any packages - although if I go direct to your URL and click on i586 I see the package group. What am I doing wrong?
Try to refresh the repos now, the i586 packages where published later than x86_64 ones.
OK - I probably was too impatient - now all is updated but it does not seem to have solved anything - I opened kmail and refreshed the folders but it sits there and does not open the mail. I will restart and see what happens then. Cheers
Uli
OK - after the restart and folder updating it seems to work now again - thank you very much sumski
Uli
That’s great to hear =)
I’ll submit the fix to 13.1 update, hopefully it will catch the ‘4.11.4 update’ train.
That’s great, @sumski. I was hit by the bug at a customer’s, where all was still on 12.1. We tested 13.1 on a couple of machines (they preferred that over 12.3), all was well for a week, then the bug hit some of their workers. I remove ~/.local/share/akonadi and everything rebuilt fine (i.e. mail settings needed some adjustments, but they were glad all was still there and back to usable).
Just a follow up - fix will be contained in the 4.11.4 update stack =)
Cheers, and congrats
Many thanks from me, too. That solved my kmail-problems in OSS 13.1.
Thomas
I am using kmail on KDE 4.12.0, I moved from 4.11 to 4.12 because just about everything seemed broken when I upgraded to 13.1. The whole Akonadi system failed to start for numerous reasons. I was going to just go back to 12.3 and wait for 13.1 to become more stable but before doing so I installed KDE 4.12 and switched my system packages to those repositories. Most of my issues were solved in the switch. Kmail and Korganizer worked again, but the problem I am finding is that I cannot move any more than 4 emails at a time or I have to restart akonadi. My guess is it is related to this bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297930 Considering it is the holiday season, I don’t expect that there will be any fixes anytime soon.
I literally have to reset Akonadi about once an hour of regular use. II have wiped the and started fresh numerous times the akonadi database so there is no reason for issues there. It does seem as though it is the imap akonadi resource that is taking down Akonadi but once it hangs all Akonadi resources seize up. I opened the Akonadi console to see if I could get any errors out of it but it thinks everything is working properly… I really don’t know where the error is in this system but it works sometimes. I just hope that it will get fixed soon. I have become spoiled over the years of everything just working properly.