Re: KMail/Akonadi grief

On Monday, November 11, 2019 7:55:55 AM PST Paul Vixie wrote:
> Anders Lund wrote on 2019-11-11 07:49:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I switched akonadi to using postgresql, and it definately feels like it
> > operates more smoothly than before.
> > 
> > But I still get the KMail BSOD (the "fetching folder content..." screen)
> > :(
> 
> i have bound "toggle online/offline" to control-space, and when i see
> that screen, i hit control-space twice, and 90% of the time it
> unfreezes. the other 10% of the time i have to stop kontact/kmail,
> "killall" kontact/kmail from a shell, and run "akonadictl fsck" then
> "akonadictl vacuum" then "akonadictl stop". then i restart kontact/kmail
> and it restarts akonadi and all is well again for several hours.
> 
> > I still do not understand why KMail does not prioritize showing the mail,
> > when the header is clicked. All other mail clients I know of does that,
> > and it is the number on function of a mail client - let the user read his
> > mail.
> > 
> > Any tips to convince KMail to do that will be wellcome :-)
> 
> the libraries for KDE, and the C++ programming language and runtime, are
> complexity personified. doing something asynchronous like this is very
> hard on the easiest day, and KDE + C++ never offer an easy day for it.

If I catch it in time, I use cntrl-esc and kill kmail (stop process), then restart.

 

John