: Re: Serious problem with KMail

[Peter Humphrey]

Hi Peter,
[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.