KMail: anyone seeing this bizarre behaviour

[Timothy Murphy]

Sometimes (about one time in three)
when I open KMail the message window is in a strange form.
Most of the entries in Inbox are threads,
I cannot change the date order by clicking on Date,
and the Subject, From and Date columns are squashed together on the left.

Basically, KMail in this state is unusable,
as I cannot access recent messages.

Closing KMail and re-opening it does not improve metters.
Logging out and in again occasionally works.
But usually I have to re-boot to get KMail back into normal form.

Is this part of the KDE/KDEinit bug(s) I've been reading about?
Any suggestion of a quicker way to return KMail to normal form?

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

[Tom Back]

A shot in the dark: have you tried closing KMail, issuing the command:

   akonadictl restart 

and restarting KMail? This solves my problems, which are admittedly different from yours 
and caused by Akonadi, but it's worth a try.



On Friday, October 21, 2016 10:05:15 AM CEST Timothy Murphy wrote:
>  Sometimes (about one time in three)
>  when I open KMail the message window is in a strange form.
>  Most of the entries in Inbox are threads,
>  I cannot change the date order by clicking on Date,
>  and the Subject, From and Date columns are squashed together on the left.
>  
>  Basically, KMail in this state is unusable,
>  as I cannot access recent messages.
>  
>  Closing KMail and re-opening it does not improve metters.
>  Logging out and in again occasionally works.
>  But usually I have to re-boot to get KMail back into normal form.
>  
>  Is this part of the KDE/KDEinit bug(s) I've been reading about?
>  Any suggestion of a quicker way to return KMail to normal form?

[Timothy Murphy]

On Friday 21 October 2016 1:42:47 P.M. IST Tom Back wrote:
>  A shot in the dark: have you tried closing KMail, issuing the
> command:
>  
>     akonadictl restart
>  
>  and restarting KMail?  
Thanks for the suggestion.
I tried it once so far and it worked.

>  > Sometimes (about one time in three)
>  > when I open KMail the message window is in a strange form.
>  > Most of the entries in Inbox are threads,
>  > I cannot change the date order by clicking on Date,
>  > and the Subject, From and Date columns are squashed together on the left.
>  > 
>  > Basically, KMail in this state is unusable,
>  > as I cannot access recent messages. 

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin