On Monday 02 Jan 2017 10:51:23 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello lists, > > (I've sent this to both gentoo-user and kdepim-users as being relevant in > both lists - I'm using kde-apps/kmail-16.12.0-r1 on Gentoo.) > > Well, I think I can finally emerge from a long battle to get KMail working. > It's been uphill all the way - except for the frequent slips backwards to > start abain. (I still don't have spell checking, as you see.) > > The main problem has been to recover archived e-mails, which sounds simple > enough as I always keep a week of daily archives on a different partition, > but it wasn't. The routine would go like this: > > 1. Set up KMail the way I like it, but on an empty message set. Save the > arrangement for use next time. > 2. Import the latest archive to a temporary folder. > 3. Mark all the imported messages as read and move each folder into > position > under Local Folders. Delete the temporary folder. > 4. Restore all the filters. > 5. Cross fingers and fetch new mail (POP as my ISP doesn't offer IMAP). > 6. KMail goes haywire. It re-creates the temporary folder and proceeds to > fill it with duplicates of all the existing messages. All those duplicates > prevent me from making a new archive until I clear them all out, > painstakingly (yes, I did actually check several thousand e-mails for > uniqueness). > 7. Sigh. Delete the temporary folder again and have another go. Same > result. > 8. Give up and start again. > > Latterly, it changed slightly and sent all those duplicates to the sent-mail > folder instead of creating a new folder for them. I think this coincided > with me using a different archive file from the previous day. > > In the end I used Ark to extract the sent-mail directory from the archive > and save it as a simple directory structure under > "./.Local Folders.directory", then delete what I'd extracted from the > archive. Then the import went smoothly in two stages: sent-mail, and > everything else. > > I lost count of the times I rebooted durning the whole struggle, but it may > well have reached 100. To omit a reboot was to risk the next step going > wrong. That's compounded by having to start KMail twice each time, because > the first time, it shows a progress bar stuck at 0% with no indication of > what is supposed to be in progress. This may be connected with the > segmentation faults I still see sometimes on shutdown; it's hard to be sure. > > Let's hope for some stability now. I still feel as though I'm walking on > eggshells.
Instead of rebooting it should be easier to first quit kmail and then run: akonadictl stop akonadictl start akonadictl fsck akonadictl vacuum On each of the above commands you should wait for a few seconds/minutes/hours, depending on the size of the database and the amount being downloaded/indexed from the mail server. Once the complete collection of messages, address book, calendar, etc. have been downloaded AND indexed your problems of being stuck at 0% ought to go away, or hopefully reduced significantly. PS. Still on stable Kmail I occasionally get a 0% indication, but with patience it goes away. This typically happens for two reasons. First the connection to gmail or other mail servers is problematic. This eventually gives an indication of connection being lost and sometimes the mailbox goes offline (I am using IMAP). Second reason is that there are no new messages in the Inbox or any other folder and therefore the filters are not being run and contents not being indexed. When a new message arrives the 0% progresses to 100% and completes almost immediately. -- Regards, Mick
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