I have read the handbook but can not find out how to do it. I have tried selecting an inbox, rt clk and select folder properties, select retrieval tab, but see no option for retrieval on startup. This is a POP3 account. Any ideas?

Hi dennisha!

I don't think there's a general setting for this but you need to set it per resource.

(Note: I use kmail in spanish so these secitons names may be wrong)
Go to Kmail's Settings -> Configure KMail -> Accounts -> Receiving tab -> (Choose an account) -> Retrieving options -> Check the last option

Do it for every account you want to chek emails on start.

After that, close kmail and restart akonadi for the changes to take effect (known bug AFAIK), e.g. from a Konsole:

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akonadictl restart

Start kmail again and it should check for emails now.

I had the last option checked on all my email accounts. I restarted akonadictl so I will have to wait until I have some emails queued up to test that it is receiving on startup, but I did get an error message on the restart from my gmail account:
org.kde.kgapi: Bad request, Google replied ' "Contacts API is being deprecated. Migrate to People API to retain programmatic access to Google Contacts. See https://developers.google.com/people/co ... -migration. '

I'm aware of some issues with gmail, in my case I can retrieve no problem but last time I checked (a few weeks ago, gmail is not my main account) I couldn't send.
Other people couldn't even retrieve mails, so it might be a bit hit an miss.

I am still having this problem, any more ideas please?

I don't use that setup so not from my part, sorry

Thanks. I am surprised that noone else seems to have this problem: I just have to wait 5 minutes before it fetches the messages.

Is it not the case that the way mentioned by richardson applies to the resource (here a POP3 agent) and not kmail This means check for new mail when the resource is started and not when kmail is started and this is when the akonadi server is started.

Please can you explain further. I am running Linux Mint and have decided to try Kmail in place of Thunderbird. Is this a sensible decision? I know nothing about akonadi. Do I need to get Linux Mint to start akonadi?

Akonadi is an information cache and it's dependency of kmail and other PIM software, it is automatically started when needed so you shouldn't need to do anything manually.

To be sure, you can check from konsole that akonadi is running with:

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akonadictl status

akonadi status is running. I stopped and started akonadi, and I see the following error message:
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: "Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_maildir_resource_0', error message: ''"
"No file selected."

Can you help with this?
Thanks

I suppose that you have not specified a directory for the "Local Folder" account in kmail. Check the settings -> Accounts -> Receiving, select "Local Folder", click on [Modify] and check if the field "Select the folder containing the maildir information:" isn't empty and contains existing directory.

I have the following as the local mail directory:
/home/dennis/.local/share/akonadi_maildir_resource_0

and it says the selected path has valid maildir folders

Any other ideas please?

Can you browse "Local Folder" and do you see any sub folders (Sent, Trash, ...) or messages within ?

Yes. Inbox,outbox,sent-mail, wastebin, draft, templates.
It functions except that it always starts offline, and does not collect the mail on startup even though that is selected.