KMail stuck on loading message

Tue Jan 16 08:24:11 GMT 2018

On Monday, January 15, 2018 5:53:13 PM MST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday, 15 January 2018 18:41:46 GMT Maurice wrote:
> 
> I've managed to get it working, more or less, by converting my POP3 source
> into IMAP. That invoved finding a machine on the LAN to turn into a mail
> server with fetchmail, postfix and dovecot, then making it fetch the POP3
> mails and serve them as IMAP. It's called evading the problem, and it
> shouldn't be necessary.

How does this keep Akonadi from sh!tting the bed and neutering KMail?