Is this a new problem with KMail?
Peter Humphrey
peter at prh.myzen.co.uk
Mon Mar 26 17:17:38 BST 2018
Recently I had a nicely working KMail setup, after setting up another box on
the network to run fetchmail to feed my ISP's POP mail to KMail via a local
IMAP account. There was the occasional hiccup, but nothing to get hot under
the collar about.
Then I decided to import some older e-mails. I knew that KMail has trouble
with e-mails that have been imported from its own archive so I extracted the
archive into a new directory and imported the e-mails from there. I've found
that to work well before.
Then I started getting duplicates and other problems, so eventually I archived
what I had, created a new user directory and set it up from scratch, lastly
importing e-mails and directory structure in the same way as above.
I had trouble creating the IMAP account in KMail, until I first created a POP
account with my ISP (but not using it to fetch e-mails) and only then creating
the local IMAP account. Now I find that, when KMail fetches e-mails from my
server and filters them, they go into their proper folders but the message
totals in the folder list are not incremented. That means I have to click on
every folder and hit + to see if anything new is there.
I haven't come across this before. I wonder whether it's another throw-back to
something going wrong in the import operation.
I mention this in case someone has an idea from it: either to advise me on
working around it or to suggest an area of investigation. Would akonadi fsck
help? I've never found it to do anything here so I don't automatically think
of it.
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Regards
Peter
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