Re: KMail frequently fails to fetch mail - need to clear akonadi cache

On Mon, 11 Nov 2013, Paul Sobey wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, ITSEF Admin wrote:
>
>>  On Wednesday 06 November 2013 13:15:07 Paul Sobey wrote:
>> >  On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, ITSEF Admin wrote:
>>  [...]
>> > >  But your akonadi cache does not need to be cleared, i.e. once you 
>> > >  restart
>> > >  akonadi, everything is back to normal (incl. mail fetching)?
>> > 
>> >  Correct - just a bounce of akonadi. It's happened three times today so
>> >  far. I'm building 4.11.3 now and will report back if behaviour changes.
>>
>>  Hm, odd... In my case, restarting akonadi does not help. Kontact will not
>>  start to display any new mails in that folder again before I clear the
>>  akonadi
>>  cache for that folder. In some cases even multiple times - the last time
>>  this
>>  happened was just now. And I'm already running 4.11.3... :-(
>>
>>  Looks like I'll have to write a bug report. Again.
>
> I'm not sure if this is related, but I just caught this in my logs:
>
> A message was received from the server with no job to handle it: "* BYE 
> Disconnected for inactivity. " 
> "(2a2042594520446973636f6e6e656374656420666f7220696e61637469766974792e20)"
> A message was received from the server with no job to handle it: "* BYE 
> Disconnected for inactivity. " 
> "(2a2042594520446973636f6e6e656374656420666f7220696e61637469766974792e20)"
>
> Seems to have hung after that. Does the akonadi imap provider handle the case 
> of server going away or forcing a disconnect gracefully?

For what it's worth, re-enabling interval mail checking on this account 
made the problem go away. The secondary imap server, which I use purely as 
an archive server, has an idle timeout configured. The Akonadi imap 
handler doesn't handle being disconnected correctly, and just hangs.

Paul

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