KMail not filtering incoming mail

[O. Sinclair]

On 01/29/17 14:49, ianseeks wrote:
> On Friday, 27 January 2017 09:17:34 GMT Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
>> So recently (and not due to a KDE update, as far as I can tell, although it
>> did start after a reboot), KMail stopped filtering incoming mail.  All mail
>> will go into the account's inbox. The filter logging window will show no
>> activity. However, when I highlight those messages, and hit Ctrl-J, they
>> will filter into their proper folders, and the activity will show on the
>> filter log. Also, they filter very slowly, and the "akonadi_mailfil"
>> process takes 100% CPU.
>>
>> Any ideas on how to trouble shoot this?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> j
>
> Mine filters most of the time but sometimes it misses one, i think its when
> akonadiserver is having a problem
>
I regularly have to recreate the filters after a "plasma/kdepim" 
upgrade. That is  make the same filter that I already have and remove 
the existing old, identical, filter