[kdepim-users] KMail has slowly become/has been impossible to use

[Daniel Vrátil]

On July 21, 2016 2:42:14 PM GMT+02:00, Sudhir Khanger <ml at sudhirkhanger.com> wrote:
>Hi,

Hi, 

>
>I have two major problems with KMail.
>
>1. KMail creates too many simultaneous connections with the Zoho Mail
>server 
>which forces them to block IMAP access to me.
>
>https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316107

KMail (or rather the IMAP resource) has hardocded limit of two  connections per account. Single instance of the IMAP resource will never attempt to establish more than two connections to the server. 

What I suspect is that your email provider is tracking the number of sessions not based on the number of actually opened TCP connections, but rather on the number of LOGIN/LOGOUT commands issued. It is possible in some situation that Akonadi will not send the LOGOUT command before the TCP connection is terminated (for example due to connectivity issues, or because you simply suspend your computer and the connection times out) and so they think the connection is still active (which means you chose a rather poor replacement for gmail) - I'd bring this up with their tech support. 


>
>2. I use web, K-9 Mail, and KMail on a regular basis. If I check my
>email on 
>web or K-9 Mail then almost always some email will never be marked as
>read. I 
>have to delete cache from Akonadi and resync all the email.

I've noticed that as well, but it only happens sometimes I think. Depending on the features your provider support, we might be hitting some less-used and potentially more buggy code path. 

I think there already is a bug report about this somewhere. 

You don't have to delete the cache though, just mark the emails as read in KMail too :) 

Dan


>
>Both of the above problems happen several times a day. How am I suppose
>to 
>work in such a situation?
>
>KDE folks kept telling me that my mistake is that I use Gmail. I took
>their 
>hardline and switched to another mail provider Zoho but now I have to
>deal 
>with incompetancy of Zoho too. This is a really stressful situation for
>me.
>
>-- 
>Regards,
>Sudhir Khanger,



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