As the recent thunderbird upgrade (in -current) left me without the lightning calendar, I decided to give Kontact and Kmail a try. I do sync my Horde calendar to cellphone and PC, and I pretty heavily rely on that. So, I started into akonadi hell.

Installing took a long time, due to very strange locations in the menues, but finally I had everything up and running. An imap account, a pop account, and a calendar and address-book import from horde5. Also bogofilter is running. Also, gpg encryption and signing. All looked nice over the weekend.

Today I went into meetings, and when I came back, I saw roughly 3400 new mails, which were all multiples of three mails which had arrived in the past few hours. As I had closed down Kontact and kmail with it, it must have been akonadi in the background, multiplying my mails. On "top" I saw some load on mysql and various akonadi stuff. I had (due to multiply copied attachments) additional 589 Mbyte in my imap account. Removing the stuff from the server in Horde 5 was no problem. Unfortunately, the 3400 mails were still seen in Kmail, and then akonadi started blocking my machine, in a rather strange attempt to get up to date with the imap account. Shutting down akonadi with "akonadictl stop" seemed to end the nightmare. I even could restart Kontact after that, and all seems to work fine.

I did like Kontact, as it looked liked it would do all I need. Unfortunately, I need a reliable tool. Any ideas out there to save the setup?

Have a nice day

Franz


Btw, I tested gnome+evolution on another machine (Fedora w. gnome) and the same setup worked within one minute (!), and flawlessly afterwards.

Update:

1. additional info: The imap side of the setup is dovecot.

2. Suddenly, after thousands of double posts, and a few re-setups, the problem stopped.

3. By marking a post as ham, I can still double that post in its folder.


It might be possible that the problem has something to do with the training curve of bogofilter (which is a highly speculative remark).

Have a nice day

Franz

Probably this.

I somehow doubt it:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...es-4175536985/

Sorry, that ("An imap account, a pop account") was unclear from me. These are two different accounts, different servers and identities.

Thanks for caring!

Franz

Sorry for talking to myself... I would like to add a guess for a solution.

After checking back, we found out that the only relevant action before the replicating behavior stopped was a re-indexing of my dovecot maildir. I have no further proof, but if someone is in a similar situation, this might help.

Wellll, I use POP3 to fetch my mails from a commercial provider directly into kmail. Replication occurs not until I move / copy mails between directories in kmail itself.