Akonadi / KMail broken imap resource

[Allen Winter]

see if any of these tips help:

https://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi#If_Akonadi_Reports_Broken_or_Non-operational


On Monday, June 16, 2025 7:34:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time Bennett Piater wrote:
> Hi,
> My IMAP resources broke in Kontact/KMail two weeks ago, and any new instances 
> are also broken.
> I am completely lost.
> 
> My first idea was to try akonadictl restart, followed by fsck and vacuum.
> The restart triggered a mariadb migration, which was successful (shouldn't 
> that have happened automatically before...?).
> However, it didn't change much.
> 
> The logs were full of errors like these - the imap resource crashes, with no 
> clear cause:
> 
> org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: ProcessControl: Application "/usr/bin/
> akonadi_imap_resource" stopped unexpectedly ( "Process crashed" )
> org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application '/usr/bin/akonadi_imap_resource' 
> crashed! 0 restarts left.
> org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as 
> Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7fe4b02b4f00) )
> org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber 
> Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7fe4b02b4f00) identified as 
> "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 93936498547840"
> org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 
> 93936498547840" disconnected
> org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: ProcessControl: Application "/usr/bin/
> akonadi_imap_resource" stopped unexpectedly ( "Process crashed" )
> org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application '/usr/bin/akonadi_imap_resource' 
> crashed too often. Giving up!
> 
> There are no further logs that I could find. akonadiconsole doesn't even get 
> logs for the imap resource. If I try debugging it, I only see "Error: Not 
> really an IMAP resource".
> 
> I then tried deleting the mariadb and having akonadi re-create it, which 
> helped me once in the past (should be fine since it's only an indexed cache).
> Finally, I tried deleting and re-adding the account in kontact.
> I also deleted the corresponding files in .local/share/akonadi* and .config/
> akonadi*.
> 
> None of the above worked. Any ideas how to proceed?
> Is there more that I could try to reset? Are there more detailed logs 
> somewhere?
> 
> This is on arch linux, so I'm running very up to date versions of everything.
> My work laptop, also on arch, did not encounter this issue.
> 
> Thanks for the great software in any case, I feel naked without it! :D
> 
> Note: Please CC me in replies as I am not subscribed to this list.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bennett
> 
> 
> 
> 

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