Re: Kmail2 is definitely losing messages
Alan McKinnon <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.users.pim |
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| Message-ID | <20110911150713.605a5c2a@rohan> |
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:18:58 +0100 ianseeks <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I happened to be in my Webmail account and watching kmail at the same > time. I had 2 messages come into the webmail account at the same > time, and only one got picked up by kmail although both emails were > set to being "read" in the webmail account interface. > I did try to reset the missing mail to "unread" by kmail would still > not pick it up. > Is kmail2 actually picking up the emails or is akonadi responsible > for this action? I guess i'm asking if the emails area stored in a > staging area before kmail picks them up and can it be checked > manually? It's perhaps a little premature to be getting extremely worried just yet. I noticed the following behaviour when I still used kmail2 (I've since moved on to claws and the machine kmail2 ran on crashed two weeks ago so this is all from memory): Often I would find mail sitting in an Akonadi "cache" directly, IIRC it was something like ~/.local/share/cache/akonadi and a little later the mail would suddenly magically appear in the messages list. This was usually right after that annoying bug where the currently displayed message would change to some new mail that had just moved into the same folder after a fetch. I concluded that akonadi's behaviour was to operate very asynchronously and heavily cache things. If it considered it couldn't deal with a message right away, it would cache it in the folder I mentioned then deal with it at some later point. Restarting akonadi often brought these message back right away, killing akonadi always seemed to lose them entirely. I haven't read the code so can't confirm any of this, it's just what I concluded from watching the behaviour. Perhaps a dev can confirm or deny it. Meanwhile, I recommend you go looking for that akonadi cache and see if your missing messages are there. -- Alan McKinnnon [email protected] _______________________________________________ KDE PIM users mailing list Subscription management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users