kmail serious problems

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Montag, 6. Februar 2023 22:09:34 CET Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Montag, 6. Februar 2023 12:46:38 CET Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Montag, 6. Februar 2023 11:47:27 CET Laurent Montel wrote:
> > > Le lundi 6 février 2023, 11:07:18 CET Kevin Ottens a écrit :
> > > > PS: That being all said, my spouse is using KMail POP3 support
> > > > happily.
> > > > Less volume of mail and many less filters of course. I confess I wish
> > > > she
> > > > had troubles with it sometimes... then I'd have something manageable
> > > > to
> > > > try to debug. But luckily for a pacified home it just works.
> > > 
> > > Just for info, I use POP3 (20 years) for my private email/kde email (so
> > > a
> > > lot of emails). I have more than 50 filters, and all works fine.
> > 
> > Then it's probably a problem of certain settings (e.g. Leave on server)
> > and/or bad POP3 servers (I guess most of them are also decades old and
> > mostly unmaintained) with unreliable UIDL support.
> 
> I'm using this with a gmx account. I would assume this server is maintained.
> I know nothing about UIDLs. Those duplicated emails cannot be displayed
> (i.e. when clicking on them nothing happens), they always stay  "unread"
> and I cannot delete them.
> 
> Is there something I can do to help ?
> I can remember that building kmail/kdepim was quite some work...
> Is there maybe some component which I could just try to build to do some
> debugging ?
> (I don't even know where to start, kmail, pop3, akonadi, akonadi-agents)
> Or can I use some tool to find out something about those duplicated emails ?
> akonadictl, mysql something, or akonadiconsole, something ?

You could use akonadiconsole to query the database for a pair of duplicates to 
find out what information they share and where they differ. Use the DB Browser 
to get an overview over the different tables and their columns and then use DB 
Console for suitable SQL queries.

Regards,
Ingo
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