From kdepim-users Mon Nov 11 15:55:55 2019 From: Paul Vixie Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:55:55 +0000 To: kdepim-users Subject: Re: KMail/Akonadi grief Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kdepim-users&m=157348777431020 Anders Lund wrote on 2019-11-11 07:49: > Hi, > > I switched akonadi to using postgresql, and it definately feels like it > operates more smoothly than before. > > But I still get the KMail BSOD (the "fetching folder content..." screen) :( i have bound "toggle online/offline" to control-space, and when i see that screen, i hit control-space twice, and 90% of the time it unfreezes. the other 10% of the time i have to stop kontact/kmail, "killall" kontact/kmail from a shell, and run "akonadictl fsck" then "akonadictl vacuum" then "akonadictl stop". then i restart kontact/kmail and it restarts akonadi and all is well again for several hours. > I still do not understand why KMail does not prioritize showing the mail, when > the header is clicked. All other mail clients I know of does that, and it is > the number on function of a mail client - let the user read his mail. > > Any tips to convince KMail to do that will be wellcome :-) the libraries for KDE, and the C++ programming language and runtime, are complexity personified. doing something asynchronous like this is very hard on the easiest day, and KDE + C++ never offer an easy day for it. -- P Vixie