Bug 421114

Summary:	Excessive CPU usage and logging (ItemRetrievalJob) in KMail / Akonadi when mail draft or template does not include any text / has empty body
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] Akonadi	Reporter:	null <null>
Component:	server	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	GIT (master)
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description null 2020-05-06 17:32:31 UTC

When composing a message and saving it as a draft without having written any text yet, akonadiserver will become very busy, resulting in a sluggish overall system. Note that this also affects saving as a template, where having an empty text area could be considered a common use case.

Symptoms include the log filling up with
> org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: ItemRetrievalJob for request 646 finished
(with the counter incrementing by one each time) even when KMail is idle/unfocussed.

There are two cases for the logging frequency:
- several messages a second if the mail is selected, going along with very high CPU usage (kmail, mysqld and akonadiserver in particular)
- a message every 5 seconds if a different (non-broken) mail is selected
The issue persists even after restarting KMail and Akonadi.

Steps to reproduce:
- start KMail with a clean KMail/Akonadi config
- no need to create any account besides "Local Folders"
- create new mail, leave all fields empty, save as draft
- select mail, notice high CPU usage and excessive logging
- edit mail by adding text in the message editor, save as draft again
- notice CPU becoming idle again, no more logging

Affected versions:
- can be reproduced with KF5 and KDE PIM from git master as of today (5.14.40) and Qt 5.14.1
- KMail 5.9.2 is affected too
- KMail 5.5.2 is _not_ affected

Possibly related: Bug 398407