Kmail searching issues

[John White]

I don't see an akonadi-search program in synaptic.  I am using debian kde 
stretch.  Everyghing, including kmail, is ver 4.16.04.

Had the same problem in "stable" jessie, which is why I switched to stretch.

I have tried to see if I could get paid help from someone.  What I am doing 
now is using kmail as I have for many years, but I have loaded icedove and use 
icedove to find messages.

Kmail's "find messages" function finds garbage (emails which are not related 
in any way to the search criteria).

This is ridiculous!

John White

On Friday, February 24, 2017 4:13:03 PM PST solitone wrote:
> I also have problems with search in KMail. It's a clean installation from
> debian stretch packages.
> 
> On Friday, 24 February 2017 11:40:44 CET Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> > First, make sure you have all latest packages of KMail, Akonadi and all
> > other PIM applications you use.
> 
> KMail version 5.2.3.
> 
> solitone at alan:~$ akonadictl -v
> Akonadi 5.2.2
> 
> solitone at alan:~$ apt-cache policy kmail
> kmail:
>   Installed: 4:16.04.3-3
>   Candidate: 4:16.04.3-3
> 
> solitone at alan:~$ apt-cache policy akonadi-server
> akonadi-server:
>   Installed: 4:16.04.3-4
>   Candidate: 4:16.04.3-4
> 
> > Also make sure your kdepim-runtime package
> > is up to date (15.x.x or 16.x.x).
> 
> solitone at alan:~$ apt-cache policy kdepim-runtime
> kdepim-runtime:
>   Installed: 4:16.04.2-2
>   Candidate: 4:16.04.2-2
> 
> > Also find which package provides the
> > obsolete /usr/ bin/akonadi_baloo_indexer file and remove/upgrade that
> > package - it will probably be called something like akonadi-baloo, while
> > the new one you want is akonadi-search.
> 
> This doesn't apply to me.
> 
> And now the issue. The quick search textbox above the message list does
> work, but it searches messages only in the folder that the list refers to,
> so in some cases is not powerful enough.
> 
> In contrast, the search function that I get when I right click on a folder,
> and select the "Find Messages..." menu entry, does not work. It doesn't work
> when I select either "search in all folders", or "search only in..."
> including/not including sub-folders, or "select specific folders". No
> result is found, but I know there are matching emails. It doesn't seem to
> look for anything, since it finishes almost immediately after clicking the
> search button.
> 
> What do you suggest I check?
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
>    Davide