Re: [gentoo-user] google SMTP with postfix - Password not accepted

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Saturday, 14 October 2023 12:26:29 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:

> I also tried  setting up a gmail IMAP source in KMail, and that worked so I
> assume the permissions are right at their end. (I removed the account when
> KMail kept resurrecting scores of mails I'd already deleted, even though
> access on my mobile showed an absence of mails.)

A bit O/T, but since you mention it I have observed the same behavior here 
with Kmail.  Different users, different email accounts (inc. Gmail).  At 
times, emails which have been deleted and even emptied from the Bin/Trash 
folder reappear.  Deleted again, only to reappear.  This can carry on for a 
while until the user gets so annoyed as to close Kmail.

I am not sure what causes this, but I suspect Kmail/akonadi does not like 
multiple user inputs in close succession, while it is still synchronising 
previous local changes to the remote IMAP folder(s).  For example, I have 
observed if a number of messages are selected and deleted, then without 
waiting for Kmail progress bar to finish you move to a different folder and 
delete a message, you are most likely to trigger this problem.  The more 
impatient a user is and the more accounts they have configured, the more often 
deleted messages tend to reappear in their Kmail.  A variation of the same 
problem is when new messages are shown in the Folder List, but none appears 
when you select the folder to look at its contents.  Pressing F5 or Update 
This Folder/Subfolders does not help.

The workarounds I have devised are:

1. Close Kmail, restart it and keep an eye on the progress bar to confirm it 
has finished synchronizing all folders with remote IMAP servers, before I 
click on anything else.

2. If the above does not succeed I close Kmail and run 'akonadictl stop', 
before I restart it.

3. If the problem is not resolved, I repeat step 2 above and proceed to run:

akonadictl start
akonadictl fsck (wait for it to finish)
akonadi vacuum  (wait for it to finish)

then relaunch Kmail.

4. A last resort is to launch akonadiconsole, go to the Browser tab and delete 
any messages there.

I anyone knows of a better solution, other than trying alternative mail 
clients, please post back.


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