IMAP & KMail/Akonadi: Unavailable folders

[mh at mike.franken.de]

On Dienstag, 29. Oktober 2024 21:24:21 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit Jörg 
Schaible wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> now after 2 decades using KMail, I am on the verge of giving up.
> 
> I am currently using KMail and Akonadi 24.08.1 and I face the problem,
> that not all folders from my IMAP account are available in KMail.
> Only when I delete the account in KMail and recreate it, all folders
> are available for some time, but latest after two days, a lot of them
> are no longer present.
> 
> Anything is there when I look into the folder structure for the
> server-side subscription, every single folder. However, opening the
> local subscriptions dialog, a lot of folders are missing, especially
> the deeper nested ones.
> 
> When I start akonadiconsole I can see in the browser tab the complete
> folder structure, but all folders that are no longer available in
> KMail's local subscription are grayed out for unknown reason.
> Comparing the folder properties for the proper and dysfunctional ones
> reveals nothing special, the properties for the grayed out folders
> seem all OK.
> 
> I have no idea, what causes the problem, nor how to solve it. The
> server uses Courier and I am using the MySQL backend with an external
> DB, but an attempt to switch to Sqlite with akonadi-db-migration runs
> simply into a segfault when the new DB is about to be initialized.
> 
> So, currently KMail is for me no longer usable after all those years
> (with a lot of downs and only a view ups) and this is really
> embarrassing. And again I am missing rock solid KMail 3...

Maybe akonadictl fsck / vacuum will improve the situation?

> 
> Regards,
> Jörg

Bye.
Michael.
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