KMail "Retrieving Folder Contents

[José Matos]

On Tuesday 08 October 2013 17:41:40 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Sometimes I get the message 
> "Retrieving Folder Contents 
> Please wait"
> when reading email on on KMail (under Fedora-19).
> Nothing happens after this.
> If I close KMail and re-open it, the message is still there.
> Even if I log out (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) and login again,
> the message remains.
> The only solution I have found is to re-boot the machine.
> 
> Has anyone else met this problem?
> It occurs every 2 or 3 days, so it is not fatal.
> But it is rather annoying.

Probably restarting akonadi should fix those cases. Alt + F2 and typing akonadi should give you the akonadi configuration that allows to restart akonadi. FWIW this is an overkill but it should avoid the need to reboot.

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José Abílio