[kdepim-users] kontact suddenly dead slow

[ITSEF Admin]

On Tuesday 15 October 2013 10:08:06 Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 of October 2013 09:55:27 ITSEF Admin wrote:
[...]
> > I just tried runnig KMail solo - no change. KMail + akonadiserver + mysqld
> > start churning away shortly after KMail starts up.
[...]
> > Kontact (or KMail in the latter case) is starting tons of jobs
> > - several per second, actually - and it just keeps on doing that. They are
> > all of the type "Akonadi::CollectionFetchJob" and all of them stay in the
> > state "Waiting" indefinitely (tried for 24h).
[...]

> this sounds like a problem with duplicated special collections (Inbox, Sent,
> Trash, ...). In Akonadi Console -> Browser tab check whether you don't have
> some of these collections duplicated in Local Folders (usually there's one
> folder in English and one localized in your language). Pick one, delete it,
> restart Akonadi and KMail should work again.

Ok, I admit I was a bit sceptic when I read your suggestion - but hey, you 
just made my day! THANK YOU!

Upon inspecting the Local Folders with akonadiconsole, there were two folders 
marked as trashcan visible: "trash" and "wastebin" - I am pretty certain that 
only one of them was visible in KMail. I then stopped Kontact and removed 
"trash". Upon the next start of Kontact, everything went back to normal again.

Coming to think about it, I have an idea how this came to pass: As I'm 
migrating from an old set-up, I had all local mails in $HOME/Mail. That 
included a folder called "trash". One of the first configurations I made in 
KMail was to point "Local Folders" to that directory rather than the default.
When I added the Kolab-accounts, they've set their trash folder to "Local 
Folders/wastebin" as per default (that seems to be a change between e35 and 
this version - it used to be "Local Folders/trash" - or is that a localisation 
issue? I'm preferring British English over American...). So, somehow, that 
mixed things up.

Question: Are you aware of there already being a suitable bug report tracking 
this issue or would you like me to create one? KMail of course should not fail 
in that way just because there happen to be two such folders...

Thanks again,

Thomas
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