Re: Serious problem with KMail

Hi Peter,

do you have a proxy configured in your system?
I had a similar problem here, where I had the http_proxy environment
variable set. No idea why, but akonadi used that for IMAP access, which of
course didn't work.

Best regards,
Andreas

Am Do., 13. Sep. 2018 um 18:57 Uhr schrieb Peter Humphrey <
[email protected]>:

> Hello list,
>
> I hope someone can help me with this. I've recently created a new user for
> myself and recompiled the entire system from bare silicon on this Gentoo
> box
> to recover from a too-full /home partition that had been unnoticed for
> some
> time. (My ~/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log had grown to 15GB!)
>
> Now when I come to set KMail up, nothing I can think of will make it
> collect
> mails from my local IMAP server.
>
> I have three sources of mail:
>   -     POP3 directly from my ISP;
>   -     IMAP from my local server which fetches from my ISP via POP3;
>   -     GMail.
> I can retrieve POP3 messages, but they cause the usual problems so I don't
> want to use that source regularly - that's why I set up the local server
> in
> the first place. I can retrieve GMail messages with no problem, apart from
> having to go to the GMail web page to delete messages.
>
> All outgoing mail should go via my ISP.
>
> 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?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Peter.
>
> Gentoo stable
> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources 4.14.65
> QT 5.9.6, KDE frameworks 5.46.0, KDE plasma 5.12.5
> KMail 18.04.3, akonadi 18.04.3
> x11-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu 18.0.1, dev-libs/amdgpu-pro-opencl
> 18.20.606296
>
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