Kmail keep being stuck "Retrieving Folder Content"

[Neal Becker]

Armelius Cameron wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Rex Dieter
> <rdieter at 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/show_bug.cgi?id=259439>
>>>
>>
>> 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.