Kubuntu 16.04.1
KMail version 5.1.3
Using:
KDE Frameworks 5.18.0
Qt 5.5.1 (built against 5.5.1)
The xcb windowing system

Installed Kubuntu 16.04.1 about 3 months ago. Plasma problems still there and KMail problems still not fixed.

KMail is definitely BROKEN in version 16.04.1

These are just some of the problems ..

* Constantly hangs or resource problems. ONLY workaround is exit KMail, then akonadictl restart, then back into KMail and hope it works. But many times it doesn't, so exit KMail, restart ,etc,etc ...... This type of problem goes on for at least 30 times per day.

* There are ghost emails in a number of folders ?

* Searching does NOT work at all

* Folders are often not updated

Can Thunderbird do all that KMail can do ? By that I mean, the functionality that does work in KMail. What about other email clients in Kubuntu ?

If I upgraded to Kubuntu 16.10 , will that fix the KMail problems ??

Yeah, Kontact / KMail was working very poorly for me as well in 16.04; I've been having much more luck with 16.10 but I sympathize with you if you aren't able to update.

whabash090 wrote:Yeah, Kontact / KMail was working very poorly for me as well in 16.04; I've been having much more luck with 16.10 but I sympathize with you if you aren't able to update.

Thanks for the heads up on 16.10. Will hopefully do it in the next few weeks (sort out backups first).

Was even thinking of adding a cron job that did the akonadictl restart automatically for me. Even if it restarted every 5 mins would be okay. Save the issues of manually fixing it.

Does anyone know when these problems will be fixed please ?

Hi!

Did you already upgrade to Kubuntu 17.04? It has a newer plasma-version and kmail works as good as it is ported until now. The search is a bit buggy as I read, but the system itself works more stable than 16.04.

You should have a look at the already posted bugs and how far development is. I prefer bugs.kde.org but launchpad is okay too for (K)ubuntu users.

Problem is not fixed, but a workaround solution found - viewtopic.php?f=215&t=140047#p375483