Hello everyone -

I have finally reached a level of annoyance that causes me to ask for some help. KMail and Akonadi are just not behaving. In KMail I often will delete a message, then watch the system take two or three minutes before the message disappears. This morning I had a message that it would not delete at all. When I clicked on the message, KMail said it was attempting to copy the content. Twenty minutes later it was still copying the content.

I restarted the akonadi server with "akonadictl restart", then ran both "akonadictl fsck" and "akonadictl vacuum". That did not help - KMail will still not delete the stuck message. I started Thunderbird and it took almost 1 second to delete the message.

In the system log file I see tens of thousands of messages that look like this:

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org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: ItemRetrievalManager posting retrieval request for items QVector(10411, 10412, 10413, 10415, 10416, 10417, 10418, 10420, 10421, 10422, 10423) to "akonadi_maildir_resource_0" . There are 0 request queues and 0 items mine
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: ItemRetrievalJob Akonadi::Server::ItemRetrievalJob(0x7f33dc0091f0) started for request 78
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: processing retrieval request for item QVector(10411, 10412, 10413, 10415, 10416, 10417, 10418, 10420, 10421, 10422, 10423)  parts: ("RFC822")  of resource: "akonadi_maildir_resource_0"
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: ItemRetrievalJob for request 78 finished
org.kde.pim.maildispatcher: Item  10423 does not have the required attribute Address.
org.kde.pim.maildispatcher: Item  10422 does not have the required attribute Address.
org.kde.pim.maildispatcher: Item  10421 does not have the required attribute Address.
org.kde.pim.maildispatcher: Item  10420 does not have the required attribute Address.
org.kde.pim.maildispatcher: Item  10418 does not have the required attribute Address.
org.kde.pim.maildispatcher: Item  10417 does not have the required attribute Address.
org.kde.pim.maildispatcher: Item  10416 does not have the required attribute Address.
org.kde.pim.maildispatcher: Item  10415 does not have the required attribute Address.
org.kde.pim.maildispatcher: Item  10413 does not have the required attribute Address.
org.kde.pim.maildispatcher: Item  10412 does not have the required attribute Address.
org.kde.pim.maildispatcher: Item  10411 does not have the required attribute Address.


The request number is incremented at every iteration, but the other items do not change. A new message is generated about every 3 or 4 seconds.

The system is Fedora 34 running KDE Plasma 5.22.4 and KDE Frameworks 5.85.0. I am running x11 for graphics server. The email account is connected through IMAP to a Postfix/Dovecot server running on CentOS7.

Is there any way to fix this?

Thanks - Bill Gee

Hmmm..... Five days and no replies. That implies to me that this forum dedicated to KDE does not actually have any KDE experts in attendance.

Can anyone suggest where I might go for help on this problem?

And, in the meantime, Thunderbird is working extremely well.

Bill Gee

Try the KDE-PIM mailing list?

Thanks. I will give that a try. Yet another email list to subscribe to ...

It does seem a bit odd to use an email list to ask for help with a non-functional email application. It's a good thing there are alternatives.

Bill Gee