I am running a fresh install of Kubuntu 11.10 with KDE 4.72 and Kmail 4.7.2.

All seems to be working OK except for some notifications that keep popping up from kmail that I cannot disable, and are becoming quite annoying when I am trying to work.

I have several email accounts that I have set up with disconnected IMAP. When kmail cannot connect to the server, it generates a notification '[account name]: connection to server lost'. These happen quite regularly, either due to problems with my connection or the availability of the server so sometimes I am bombarded with these notifications. In the previous release of kmail, there was an option to turn the notification off (in the notification window if I remember correctly), but this option is no longer present.

Any suggestions for how to disable these, as I can't find anything in Notifications to turn them off?

Kmail->Settings->Configure Notifications menu item AFAIK.

Unhinged, that is where I thought it would be but there is no notification listed for connecting to the server. I have tried disabling the 'Error While Checking Mail' notification but this does not stop the annoying messages from popping up. I wonder if Akonadi is generating them?

In "System Settings -> Application and System Notifications" there is a radio button to set "Others" to the "System Tray". Try that as I find Tray Notifications less irritating than Pop-ups.

That said, there are a lot of options in the "Manage Notifications" section.

I have been through Manage Notifications and can't find any of the Listed Event Sources that might be generating the message. There are 2 for kmail, but none related to the message I am getting. I noticed that kmail is version 4.7.2 in the release but KDE is 4.7.1, so I updated to 4.7.2 from the kubuntu repository, but it made no difference.

I am also getting an akonadi notification whenever I reboot saying invalid password or network proxy for the gcal_resource. I have to re-enter the google account and password and restart akonadi to connect to the google calendar - details do not persist through reboots.

Akonadi seems to be rather buggy. Shame, as I like Kontact as a whole. Probably going to move to Thunderbird and Lightning for my main email and calendaring until Akonadi stabilises.

Thanks for your suggestions. I'll going with Kontact though and try and track down these bugs.


EDIT:

I think that I have tracked down the source of the errors: libgcal and akonadi-googledata. These provide the google calendar resource in akonadi and apparently are not working too well with KDE 4.7.x. When I delete these packages, the annoying notifications disappear.

Ref: http://code.google.com/p/libgcal/updates/list

akonaditray is running ? If yes, quit it

krop, thanks for the suggestion, but I it seems that the problem was cured by deleting the packages for libgcal and akonadi-googledata. Strangely, these libraries seem to have been generating both authentication notifications connecting to the google calender and also notifications relating to loss of connection to email servers.

I have now created a DAV groupware resource in akonadi to connect to google calendar, and this seems to be working OK in the Kontact Calendar application.

EDIT: spoke too soon. Calendar problem fixed but still getting email server connection lost notifications from KDE Workspace. Will kill the Akonadi tray to see if that stops them.

EDIT 2: Yes, killing the Akonadi tray stopped the notifications. To stop the tray running automatically at startup, I searched for and deleted all akonaditray.desktop files on the system.

I disabled the Akonadi tray because it was reporting "server connection lost" notifications every few minutes. Unfortunately with the Akonadi tray disabled it appears all tray notifications from clients of this service are disabled as well. Specifically I'm unable to have a tray flag when there's new mail regardless of the notification settings. Is there any workaround for this?

Is there a bug report for this issue? It seems like it needs to be fixed.