KMail/Akonadi grief

[Paul Vixie]

Anders Lund wrote on 2019-11-11 07:49:
> Hi,
> 
> I switched akonadi to using postgresql, and it definately feels like it
> operates more smoothly than before.
> 
> But I still get the KMail BSOD (the "fetching folder content..." screen) :(

i have bound "toggle online/offline" to control-space, and when i see 
that screen, i hit control-space twice, and 90% of the time it 
unfreezes. the other 10% of the time i have to stop kontact/kmail, 
"killall" kontact/kmail from a shell, and run "akonadictl fsck" then 
"akonadictl vacuum" then "akonadictl stop". then i restart kontact/kmail 
and it restarts akonadi and all is well again for several hours.

> I still do not understand why KMail does not prioritize showing the mail, when
> the header is clicked. All other mail clients I know of does that, and it is
> the number on function of a mail client - let the user read his mail.
> 
> Any tips to convince KMail to do that will be wellcome :-)

the libraries for KDE, and the C++ programming language and runtime, are 
complexity personified. doing something asynchronous like this is very 
hard on the easiest day, and KDE + C++ never offer an easy day for it.

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P Vixie