: Re: Serious problem with KMail

[Peter Humphrey]

Jörg Schaible <joerg.schaible at gmx.de> wrote :

> Hi Peter,
> 
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:56:45 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > No matter how I set up the IMAP source, KMail seems to make no attempt
> > to communicate with the server. I haven't brought out the tin-snips yet
> > to analyse the IP traffic, but I've tried everything else I can think
> > of. I've tried setting up the IMAP source first, with outgoing set
> > either to the IMAP server or to my ISP's server. I've tried settting up
> > the POP3 service first,
> > then the IMAP - this is the order in which I defined them originally.
> > I've tried setting up GMail first, second or third. I've even tried
> > reverting the server to its previous version, which used to work with no
> > problems.
> > 
> > So at the moment I have a write-only e-mail system (if this makes it
> > out).
> > 
> > Can anyone shed a little light into my dark corner?
> 
> Have you tried to stop akonadi while KMail runs? I usually do this from command
> line "akonadictl stop". KMail 
> will then restart it and suddenly it fetches my mails from the IMAP server.
> Unfortunately after some time, 
> akonadi gets stuck again and a new start/stop cycle has to be done. :-/
> 
> Cheers,
> Jörg

Then I got an error on the status bar:

"Unable to fetch item from backend (collection -1): unable to contact resource."

The status bar then showed a 0% progress of the mail filter agent. I tried to restart KMail, but it wouldn't start - until I issued an "akonadictl restart" command (akonadi had been running). Then KMail sprang into life without further action by me.

That "collection -1" looks suspicious to me. Akonadiconsole shows 7 resources, numbered 1 - 7 of course. Number 7 is akonadi_imap_resource_0.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.