KMail "Retrieving Folder Contents

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Tue Oct 8 15:56:41 UTC 2013


José Matos 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.

> Probably restarting akonadi should fix those cases. Alt + F2 and typing
> akonadi should give you the akonadi configuration that allows to restart
> akonadi.

Thanks, I'll try that next time the problem occurs.

I did actually try going to Akonadi Console and disabling/enabling 
the IMAP server in question, but that didn't do the trick.

> 
-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland




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