[kdepim-users] Kmail 4.14.5: Filters on incoming POP mail stopped working

[Peter Humphrey]

On Friday 17 July 2015 12:17:07 Maurice wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:06:46 +0100, ianseeks wrote:
> > I still have the occasional mail escape the filters,
> 
> Well, this morning the filters seem to be working again.
> 
> The only change I tried yesterday was to one filter that had 2 filter
> lines, one of which I removed, as I had seen somewhere that that might
> be a cause.
> 
> That filter worked today, but then also another worked, and that only
> ever hadjust 1 filter line.
>   No failures with any of the other filters.
> 
> Very odd, and am wondering whether it's time to give memtest a run...

I had been experiencing what can only be described as farcical behaviour by 
KMail, when I was recommended to try akonadiconsole to delete a folder's cache 
and then resynchronise the folder. I did that to the worst offending folders 
and I've had a much smoother ride ever since. It's clear that robustness 
against bad messages is not a design criterion in KMail - or if it is, it 
needs more work.

A word to the wise, though: akonadiconsole doesn't give any sign of what it's 
doing, so you need some way of being sure that it's finished working before 
stopping it. I used gkrellm to monitor disk activity, which did the job 
nicely.

-- 
Rgds
Peter

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