Re: Delay during retrieval of mails with POP3 and KDEPIM milestones (was: Re: KNode)

["Robert B. Carleton" <rbc@rbcarleton.net>]

On Tuesday, September 2, 2025 6:08:55 PM Central Daylight Time Robert B. 
Carleton wrote:
[...]
> 
> My POP3 setup is super simple. It's popa3d(8) fronted by relayd(8) for TLS
> on OpenBSD.
> 
> My KDE setup is stock Debian Trixie. I've seen some delays and managed to
> cause Kontact errors when manually polling for mail during the interval pull
> of email. I've kind of backed off and have a 5 minute interval set for
> polling email, and I've just stopped polling manually for the most part.
> 
> Something else is when there's lots of email. I was away for a couple of
> weeks and used s-nail to read email on the email host. When I returned,
> there were about 1000 emails piled up, and it took 5-10 minutes for the
> KMail polling to occur and the rules to execute.
> 
> I haven't done any debugging yet. So far all I can offer is anecdotal
> remarks.
[...]

I've spent some time starting to use akonadictl. I've tried running a fsck a 
few times (with Kontact closed), and it seems like it frequently finds things 
to fix. I was curious if there any suggested resources I could use to get to 
know Akonadi better? It seems like a little bit of a black box so far.