12:57 p.m.
Hello,
I have just install F16 and its latest update. Then I set up my kmail. All
my mail are IMAP connection (multiple IMAP servers). For some reason my
kmail (running inside Kontact) keep being stuck on "Retrieving Folder
Content", no matter what I tried. I tried clicking different folders, kill
kontact / kmail from process manager, log out / re-login, and even reboot.
And everytime I open kmail, at first it shows whatever message it happens
to show, but whenever I tried to click to a different message, it gets
stuck again to "Retrieving Folder Contents." Has anyone been seeing this ?
I found this bug below from googling but there doesn't seem to be any
resolution.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259439
Thanks.
AC
1:09 p.m.
On 01/04/2012 12:57 PM, Armelius Cameron wrote:
Hello,
I have just install F16 and its latest update. Then I set up my kmail.
All my mail are IMAP connection (multiple IMAP servers). For some reason
my kmail (running inside Kontact) keep being stuck on "Retrieving Folder
Content", no matter what I tried. I tried clicking different folders,
kill kontact / kmail from process manager, log out / re-login, and even
reboot. And everytime I open kmail, at first it shows whatever message
it happens to show, but whenever I tried to click to a different
message, it gets stuck again to "Retrieving Folder Contents." Has anyone
been seeing this ? I found this bug below from googling but there
doesn't seem to be any resolution.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259439
You shouldn't ever have to kill anything. Is kmail hung at that point?
Tried doing
akonadictl restart
?
-- rex
3:18 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)math.unl.edu> wrote:
On 01/04/2012 12:57 PM, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> Hello,
> I have just install F16 and its latest update. Then I set up my kmail.
> All my mail are IMAP connection (multiple IMAP servers). For some reason
> my kmail (running inside Kontact) keep being stuck on "Retrieving Folder
> Content", no matter what I tried. I tried clicking different folders,
> kill kontact / kmail from process manager, log out / re-login, and even
> reboot. And everytime I open kmail, at first it shows whatever message
> it happens to show, but whenever I tried to click to a different
> message, it gets stuck again to "Retrieving Folder Contents." Has anyone
> been seeing this ? I found this bug below from googling but there
> doesn't seem to be any resolution.
>
>
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.**cgi?id=259439<https://bugs.kde.org/sho...
>
You shouldn't ever have to kill anything. Is kmail hung at that point?
Tried doing
akonadictl restart
?
No, kmail still responding e.g. when I clicked around different folders,
the message windows just keep showing "Retrieving Folder Contents."
Apparently this happens when there is IMAP folders with large numbers of
messages (e.g. order of thousands). For example if I delete this particular
account from kmail, kmail seems to behave better. And I use this gmail
account for Fedora-KDE and Fedora-Users list (which obviously has tons of
messages). I just added this account back, and the stuck behaviour comes
back... <sigh>. I am wondering if anyone else is seeing this.
AC
7:45 p.m.
Armelius Cameron wrote:
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Rex Dieter
<rdieter(a)math.unl.edu> wrote:
> On 01/04/2012 12:57 PM, Armelius Cameron wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I have just install F16 and its latest update. Then I set up my kmail.
>> All my mail are IMAP connection (multiple IMAP servers). For some reason
>> my kmail (running inside Kontact) keep being stuck on "Retrieving Folder
>> Content", no matter what I tried. I tried clicking different folders,
>> kill kontact / kmail from process manager, log out / re-login, and even
>> reboot. And everytime I open kmail, at first it shows whatever message
>> it happens to show, but whenever I tried to click to a different
>> message, it gets stuck again to "Retrieving Folder Contents." Has
anyone
>> been seeing this ? I found this bug below from googling but there
>> doesn't seem to be any resolution.
>>
>>
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.**cgi?id=259439<https://bugs.kde.org/sho...
>>
>
> You shouldn't ever have to kill anything. Is kmail hung at that point?
>
> Tried doing
> akonadictl restart
> ?
>
>
No, kmail still responding e.g. when I clicked around different folders,
the message windows just keep showing "Retrieving Folder Contents."
Apparently this happens when there is IMAP folders with large numbers of
messages (e.g. order of thousands). For example if I delete this particular
account from kmail, kmail seems to behave better. And I use this gmail
account for Fedora-KDE and Fedora-Users list (which obviously has tons of
messages). I just added this account back, and the stuck behaviour comes
back... <sigh>. I am wondering if anyone else is seeing this.
AC
This is the same behavior I've seen for the last several months, and after
several tries to get things working even from fresh accounts, I have abandoned
kmail.
8:13 a.m.
Le mercredi 04 janvier 2012 16:18:56 Armelius Cameron a écrit :
Apparently this happens when there is IMAP folders with large numbers
of
messages (e.g. order of thousands). For example if I delete this particular
account from kmail, kmail seems to behave better. And I use this gmail
account for Fedora-KDE and Fedora-Users list (which obviously has tons of
messages). I just added this account back, and the stuck behaviour comes
back... <sigh>. I am wondering if anyone else is seeing this.
Me, also with huges folders (like you: those that contain mailing list
messages).
--
Laurent Rineau
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LaurentRineau
10:14 a.m.
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 03:13:11 PM Laurent Rineau wrote:
Le mercredi 04 janvier 2012 16:18:56 Armelius Cameron a écrit :
> Apparently this happens when there is IMAP folders with large numbers of
> messages (e.g. order of thousands). ...
Me, also with huges folders (like you: those that contain mailing list
messages).
So apparently this is just an overhead we have to pay with big folders...
I decided to let kmail does whatever it was doing in the seemingly stuck mode
with "retrieving folder content" from a wired network (I was on a wireless
before) and let it run it course. Eventually it finish and now it seems to
behave better.
As I replied to Rex, Kmail did not hung, but there was no indication it was
doing anything either. Apparently it was doing something, probably trying to
sync or cache the headers of all the messages since I set up from fresh.
Probably there's a better solution to somehow inform the user that it's still
doing something, and for e.g. prioritize to download and then show the message
being selected before continuing to try caching everything else, then just
showing the message "Retrieving folder content" for a loooong time.
AC
8:24 a.m.
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Armelius Cameron <armeliusc(a)gmail.com>wrote:
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 03:13:11 PM Laurent Rineau wrote:
> Le mercredi 04 janvier 2012 16:18:56 Armelius Cameron a écrit :
> > Apparently this happens when there is IMAP folders with large numbers
of
> > messages (e.g. order of thousands). ...
> Me, also with huges folders (like you: those that contain mailing list
> messages).
So apparently this is just an overhead we have to pay with big folders...
I decided to let kmail does whatever it was doing in the seemingly stuck
mode
with "retrieving folder content" from a wired network (I was on a wireless
before) and let it run it course. Eventually it finish and now it seems to
behave better.
Well I spoke too soon. I came in this morning and open kmail, and it gets
stuck again... for no apparent reason. This is getting ridiculous. I still
have an old laptop running F12 and KDE / Kmail there works much more
reliably than this one...
AC
4:20 p.m.
On Friday, January 06, 2012 09:24:27 AM you wrote:
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Armelius Cameron
<armeliusc(a)gmail.com>wrote:
Well I spoke too soon. I came in this morning and open kmail, and it
gets
stuck again... for no apparent reason. This is getting ridiculous. I still
have an old laptop running F12 and KDE / Kmail there works much more
reliably than this one...
It seems that I'm not the only one. I saw this too:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kdepim-users&m=132548614214176&w=2
Now the workarounds for me is by doing: "akonadictl restart" (as mentioned by
Rex) from another terminal. At least there's that...
AC
11:20 a.m.
Armelius Cameron wrote:
No, kmail still responding e.g. when I clicked around different
folders,
the message windows just keep showing "Retrieving Folder Contents."
Apparently this happens when there is IMAP folders with large numbers of
messages (e.g. order of thousands).
As a matter of interest, is this any large folders,
or just those with new messages?
I moved most of my inbox to another folder,
and that seemed to stop KMail being stuck in this way.
I've often wondered - and asked here - how I can archive large folders
(eg email from 8 years ago),
in such a way that they could be retrieved and read by KMail
reasonably easily, but are removed from KMail's list of folders?
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin
8:54 p.m.
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 12:20:54 pm Timothy Murphy wrote:
Armelius Cameron wrote:
> No, kmail still responding e.g. when I clicked around different folders,
> the message windows just keep showing "Retrieving Folder Contents."
>
> Apparently this happens when there is IMAP folders with large numbers of
> messages (e.g. order of thousands).
As a matter of interest, is this any large folders,
or just those with new messages?
I moved most of my inbox to another folder,
and that seemed to stop KMail being stuck in this way.
I haven't explicitly check on that of course, but I don't know if it makes any
different.
I've often wondered - and asked here - how I can archive large folders
(eg email from 8 years ago),
in such a way that they could be retrieved and read by KMail
reasonably easily, but are removed from KMail's list of folders?
For this I actually archive yearly (e.g. inbox-2011, inbox-2010) or bi-
annually and seems to be OK. But for my case even for several years the size
my actual personal inbox is nothing compared to, say, the size of my folder
for Fedora-User list for 1 year without any pruning.
AC
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