[Kde-pim] [kdepim-users] Kmail2 is definitely losing messages

[ianseeks]

On Sunday 11 Sep 2011 15:07:13 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:18:58 +0100
> 
> ianseeks <ianseeks at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I happened to be in my Webmail account and watching kmail at the same
> > time.  I had 2 messages come into the webmail account at the same
> > time, and only one got picked up by kmail although both emails were
> > set to being "read" in the webmail account interface.
> > I did try to reset the missing mail to "unread" by kmail would still
> > not pick it up.
> > Is kmail2 actually picking up the emails or is akonadi responsible
> > for this action? I guess i'm asking if the emails area stored in a
> > staging area before kmail picks them up and can it be checked
> > manually?
> 
> It's perhaps a little premature to be getting extremely worried just
> yet.
> 
> I noticed the following behaviour when I still used kmail2 (I've since
> moved on to claws and the machine kmail2 ran on crashed two weeks ago
> so this is all from memory):
> 
> Often I would find mail sitting in an Akonadi "cache" directly, IIRC it
> was something like ~/.local/share/cache/akonadi and a little later the
> mail would suddenly magically appear in the messages list. This was
> usually right after that annoying bug where the currently displayed
> message would change to some new mail that had just moved into the same
> folder after a fetch.
> 
> I concluded that akonadi's behaviour was to operate very asynchronously
> and heavily cache things. If it considered it couldn't deal with a
> message right away, it would cache it in the folder I mentioned then
> deal with it at some later point. Restarting akonadi often brought
> these message back right away, killing akonadi always seemed to lose
> them entirely.
> 
> I haven't read the code so can't confirm any of this, it's just what I
> concluded from watching the behaviour. Perhaps a dev can confirm or
> deny it. Meanwhile, I recommend you go looking for that akonadi cache
> and see if your missing messages are there.

i've done a search of  "~/.local/share/akonadi/file_db_data" for a subject 
containing "via a driod" and it can't find the original email although it 
exists on the webmail server.  All it finds are the 2 replies that do exist in 
my kmail2.


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