KMail 2: problems after recent changes in unstable
The recent update of KMail/KDE to 4.10 has resulted in several changes
for the worse on my system.
* Sometimes messages selected in the message list are not shown. The
message frame keeps showing "Retrieving Folder Contents. Please
wait...". If this happens, all folders and accounts are affected.
Restarting Akonadi seems to help.
* IMAP: Messages in threads marked as "ignored" or "watched" are not
properly marked as read. After migrating to KMail 2, there were
thousands of purportedly unread messages, all of them in threads marked
either as "ignored" or "watched". Making these messages unread only
persistently(!) worked after I removed the "ignored" and "watched"
markings. This is not just a migrating issue, I see the same behavior
with newly started threads.
* After starting KMail, I get a notification that doesn't make sense:
"Resource Local is broken. This resource is now online" (sic). Akonadi
Console shows the resource having status "Online, Idle" with status
message "Ready".
* Every now and then I get an error message
Conflict Resolution - Local of type KMail Mail Folder
Two updates conflict with each other.
Please choose which update(s) to apply.
If I keep both messages, I can see that they have the same date, so
presumably this is indeed an update conflict. However, as there is no
other process touching ~/Mail, I have no idea why KMail brings this upon
itself.
* I have several rules for handling messages marked as spam. They are
marked as read and then moved into a Spam folder. The moving works, but
the messages show up twice in the Spam folder. One copy is marked as
spam and read, the other is unmarked and unread. As far as I can tell,
only IMAP accounts are affected.
What makes these issues particularly unfortunate is that from a *user's*
point of view I see no improvements that might balance them.
Michael
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Michael Schuerig
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