[kdepim-users] Sending email hangs Kmail...

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 17 April 2010 21:46:29 r bartlett wrote:
> I am struggling here.  As of whatever the update was about a month ago,
> Kmail and Kontact have been barely useable.  One problem is that the
> Addressbook simply doesn't appear sometimes.  When I need an address, it's
> just ... blank.  Another issue is that at random times when I click send,
> the email grays out as if it's going to send and then just hangs.  It's
> frustrating because I can SEE the email, but I can't select any text in
> it...Kontact responds, I can move and resize the window, but I can't click
> inside it...nothing.  I have to kill the process and rewrite the email
> from scratch (it doesn't send).
> 
> I'm really shocked at the vast number of basic issues that have cropped up.
>  I really don't have time to mess around for days or weeks with trying to
> set up servers (Akonadi, etc) and certainly don't want to have things
> hanging right after I've spent 30 minutes writing an email.  That's the
> whole reason I migrated to Linux from Windows in the first place.  I don't
> know where to begin to fix these issues.  But clearly I'm not the only one
> having problems, either.  Addressbooks are disappearing, IMAP is hanging,
> etc., etc.
> 
> Can I downgrade Kmail to a previous version, perhaps?  And if so, what are
> the steps necessary to do that?
> 
You'd do better to upgrade your KDE.  You don't say which version you are 
using, but these are issues that were there in the first release of akonadi-
controlled addressbook.  Taking one at a time -

Disappearing addressbook - close kontact.  Start kaddressbook as a stand-
alone, close kaddressbook and go back to kontact.  It's a known bug, though I 
haven't seen it occur for some time, so could well be fixed now.

Sending mail - if you had left it alone, it would have eventually gone.  
Again, it's a known bug that is now fixed.  It was caused by nepomuk searching 
for all possible matches of the address, as I understand it.  It does not 
happen in 4.4.2 - and I think was resolved in 4.4.1.

Anne
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