KMail not sending mail anymore

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Montag, 21. Oktober 2024 09:20:40 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Erik 
Quaeghebeur wrote:
> Since yesterday evening, KMail won't send any mails for me anymore. I'm
> using version 24.08.1 and nothing changed in my software setup since before
> the problems started. I can compose the email, then instruct it to send
> (Ctrl-Enter), and then nothing happens. The mail just stays in the local
> mailbox outbox. Also when I then reselect it there and try to send it
> again, it doesn't do anything. I also do not get any error dialog or so.
> Neither the SMTP server nor the EWS account work, so I assume it is
> somewhere earlier in the pipeline.
> 
> I've tried restarting akonadi, akonadictl fsck, rebooting, restarting the
> mail dispatcher agent. None of these things work. In my logs, every time I
> try, I see lines of the form
> 
> 09:07:52.067729 akonadi_maildispatcher_agent[8825]:
> org.kde.pim.maildispatcher: Item  736430 does not have the required
> attribute Address 
> 09:07:52.007752 akonadi_maildispatcher_agent[8825]:
> org.kde.pim.maildispatcher: Item  736430 does not have the required
> attribute Address
> 
> Such lines are there also sometimes without me trying to send, but
> requesting a send triggers them for sure. Also in the logs nearby those

Did you check the outbox? Maybe an invalid message (Item  736430) is stuck 
there and blocks the sending. Also check the outbox with akonadiconsole if 
KMail doesn't show anything suspicious in the outbox.

Regards,
Ingo
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