13.10 KMAIL Problem

Little Girl littlergirl at gmail.com
Sat Oct 5 17:57:57 UTC 2013


Hey there,

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> Little Girl wrote:
> > Bruce Marshall wrote:

> > > Anyone running 13.10  and having Kmail problems?   Kmail runs
> > > fine for me on 13.04 but when I switch to 13.10, all I get are
> > > "Retrieving Folder Contents" messages and I can't read any
> > > emails....
> > 
> > I don't use Kmail, so I've got no idea. ):
> > 
> > > I guess maybe it's time to rebuild my entire Kmail setup since
> > > it has slowly been dying for the past 6 releases... (ever since
> > > switching to Kmail2)  I haven't been able to search emails in
> > > about 3 years...  A sorely missed function.
> > 
> > If this is still an issue, a work-around is to open a terminal
> > window in the main directory where Kmail stores your messages and
> > do a search of the contents of the messages like this:
 
> Been there, done that....    Don't bother anymore.  Thanks for the
> tip but searching is not my major problem.   I've been using KMAIL2
> since I was forced into it around 9.10 (I think) and it has at
> least done 90% of its functions since then.   But now it refuses to
> show ANY mail...  just sits there "retrieving folder contents."

Sorry about that! Is
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=215&t=111258 of any use? It
seems recent.

A Google search for kmail retrieving folder contents turns up quite a
few similar reports, but they look to be from quite a while ago, so
they may not be useful - especially since some of them claim to have
been solved, yet you're currently seeing the behavior.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.




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