I have my IMAP account setup to shutdown the connection when I quit kmail, yet the akonadi resource seems to continue to run and also starts at boot even though kmail is not running. I do have google calendar resources setup and the digital clock plasmoid is setup to display events, which would explain akonadi starting, but not the imap resource. This is an issue because it consumes 50-75% of my cpu between the akonadi feeder and mysqld. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot computer 1. Quit out of kmail/kontact Actual Results: The akonadi imap feeder is still running. Expected Results: The akonadi imap feeder should not be running. An additional problem this causes is if I leave one computer running, but have kmail closed while using another computer for the same imap account I end up with duplicate e-mails due to filters moving the same e-mail from two separate computers to the same folder.
I can confirm this in openSUSE 12.2. Quitting Kontact keeps the akonadi resource processes running. Also logging in in a KDE account immediately a prompt for the kdewallet password pops up before Kontact is started. The strange thing is that after starting Kontact again that password is asked for, also when sending an email message.
I can confirm this bug on Gentoo amd64 using kde 4.9.3.
The IMAP resource has a new maintainer, reassigning to him.
This is a WONTFIX for now. On demand starting of agents/resources is currently not implemented and the feeder just indexes everything that is available (nothing specific to the imap resource). We're also aware of the feeder requiring a lot of processing power and are working on fixing it.