Over the past two to 3 months, I have had a problem with kmail on my laptop, when connecting to my work exchange server. I have been trying to determine if it is the IMAP server, the corporate NAC, or the akonadi backend. I talked to the exchange admin, and he said nothing has changed on his end since before the problems started. I have gotten radio silence from the NAC admin.
What happens is that I end up having to restart akonadi, sometimes up to 30 or 40 times during the course of a work day. What I see in kmail varies, from the status bar in the lower right sweeping back and forth like a cylon, to it getting stuck at some percentage until I restart akonadi. Sometimes, I will see messages suck as:
request for item 271396 "2040490" failed: "Unable to retrieve item from resource: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken."
I also have to restart akonadi in order to see new emails that have come in to my inbox. Finally, I find that I have a hard time deleting or moving messages. The messages will gray out in the folder I am in, but never get moved. Then i have to restart akonadi, and it seems to have forgotten the command to move them.
Can anyone suggest a fix or workaround other than starting akonadi every 5 - 10 minutes?
Thanks,
--b