On January 2, 2017 5:22:34 PM GMT+01:00, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: >On Monday, 2 January 2017 11:42:44 GMT Mick wrote: >> On Monday 02 Jan 2017 10:51:23 Peter Humphrey wrote: >> > Hello lists, >> > >> > (I've sent this to both gentoo-user and kdepim-users as being >relevant >> > in >> > both lists - I'm using kde-apps/kmail-16.12.0-r1 on Gentoo.) >> > >> > Well, I think I can finally emerge from a long battle to get KMail >> > working. It's been uphill all the way - except for the frequent >slips >> > backwards to start abain. (I still don't have spell checking, as >you >> > see.) >> > >> > The main problem has been to recover archived e-mails, which sounds >> > simple enough as I always keep a week of daily archives on a >different >> > partition, but it wasn't. The routine would go like this: >> > >> > 1. Set up KMail the way I like it, but on an empty message set. >Save the >> > arrangement for use next time. >> > 2. Import the latest archive to a temporary folder. >> > 3. Mark all the imported messages as read and move each folder into >> > position under Local Folders. Delete the temporary folder. >> > 4. Restore all the filters. >> > 5. Cross fingers and fetch new mail (POP as my ISP doesn't offer >IMAP). >> > 6. KMail goes haywire. It re-creates the temporary folder and >proceeds >> > to >> > fill it with duplicates of all the existing messages. All those >> > duplicates prevent me from making a new archive until I clear them >all >> > out, painstakingly (yes, I did actually check several thousand >e-mails >> > for uniqueness). >> > 7. Sigh. Delete the temporary folder again and have another go. >Same >> > result. 8. Give up and start again. >> > >> > Latterly, it changed slightly and sent all those duplicates to the >> > sent-mail folder instead of creating a new folder for them. I think >> > this coincided with me using a different archive file from the >previous >> > day. >> > >> > In the end I used Ark to extract the sent-mail directory from the >> > archive >> > and save it as a simple directory structure under >> > "./.Local Folders.directory", then delete what I'd extracted from >the >> > archive. Then the import went smoothly in two stages: sent-mail, >and >> > everything else. >> > >> > I lost count of the times I rebooted durning the whole struggle, >but it >> > may well have reached 100. To omit a reboot was to risk the next >step >> > going wrong. That's compounded by having to start KMail twice each >> > time, because the first time, it shows a progress bar stuck at 0% >with >> > no indication of what is supposed to be in progress. This may be >> > connected with the segmentation faults I still see sometimes on >> > shutdown; it's hard to be sure. >> > >> > Let's hope for some stability now. I still feel as though I'm >walking on >> > eggshells. >> >> Instead of rebooting it should be easier to first quit kmail and then >run: >> >> akonadictl stop >> akonadictl start >> akonadictl fsck >> akonadictl vacuum >> >> On each of the above commands you should wait for a few >> seconds/minutes/hours, depending on the size of the database and the >> amount being downloaded/indexed from the mail server. Once the >complete >> collection of messages, address book, calendar, etc. have been >downloaded >> AND indexed your problems of being stuck at 0% ought to go away, or >> hopefully reduced significantly. > >I've just run that set of four commands, and guess what? I now have my >first >batch of duplicate messages. I also have a feeling that some new >messages >from this list have disappeared. > >I don't trust akonadictl at the moment. > >> PS. Still on stable Kmail I occasionally get a 0% indication, but >with >> patience it goes away. This typically happens for two reasons. >First the >> connection to gmail or other mail servers is problematic. This >> eventually gives an indication of connection being lost and sometimes >the >> mailbox goes offline (I am using IMAP). Second reason is that there >are >> no new messages in the Inbox or any other folder and therefore the >> filters are not being run and contents not being indexed. When a new >> message arrives the 0% progresses to 100% and completes almost >> immediately. > >Thanks, but that doesn't explain why stopping KMail and immediately >restarting it clears the zero progress on an unknown task. Every time, >too.
I wonder if the kmail developers actually test with locally stored email? I only use IMAP and am not encountering these issues. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
