Bug 348103 - Thousands of empty messages with duplicate headers created in accounts
Summary: Thousands of empty messages with duplicate headers created in accounts
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Akonadi
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR grave
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
URL:
Keywords:
: 347854 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2015-05-22 13:54 UTC by auxsvr
Modified: 2022-12-15 05:14 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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mail duplication (106.24 KB, image/png)
2015-05-26 23:09 UTC, Bernhard Jungk
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Description auxsvr 2015-05-22 13:54:11 UTC
Some days ago, a gmail IMAP resource had connection problems. Later, about 900 email messages with empty bodies and duplicate headers started appearing in the inboxes of 2 other IMAP accounts, while akonadi was using lots of resources (CPU, RAM)! These messages persisted being created even after I restarted akonadi; they stopped being created only after I turned every IMAP resource off-line and restarted them. The next day, I found out that the directories ~/http: and ~/imap: were created at about the same time; these directories include a copy of an ICS file from a calendar resource and the file structure of an IMAP account respectively.

I'm setting this to grave, because akonadi seems to copy and create data at random, even to the local filesystem, while it becomes unusable.

Reproducible: Didn't try




This is with kontact-4.16.4, openSUSE 13.2.
Comment 1 auxsvr 2015-05-23 11:50:49 UTC
I've set fetchmail to retrieve my email once a week and it retrieves thousands of emails with mangled headers in place of the body. They probably are the empty emails that appeared in the IMAP resource, before I deleted them. Perhaps google had some malfunction akonadi made it even worse?
Comment 2 Sami Boukortt 2015-05-26 19:37:39 UTC
*** Bug 347854 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Bernhard Jungk 2015-05-26 23:09:08 UTC
Created attachment 92841 [details]
mail duplication

This is what I am getting for almost every mail I receive. The phantom mails also cannot be removed by KMail.
Comment 4 Garry Williams 2015-06-27 13:19:04 UTC
I cannot start Kmail any more because it will result in thousands of empty messages being created on the IMAP server (Gmail).  Nothing I do seems to prevent this mess.

kdepim-4.14.9-1.fc22.x86_64
kmail-4.14.9-1.fc22.x86_64
kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.14.9-1.fc22.x86_64
akonadi-1.13.0-12.fc22.x86_64
kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.14.9-1.fc22.x86_64
Comment 5 quazgar 2018-02-01 16:12:34 UTC
I had a similar behavior just today, when accidentally enabling server-side subscription for an Outlook IMAP server (at gwdg.de).  The only way to get rid of the problem was to remove the IMAP account and recreate it.
Comment 6 Justin Zobel 2022-11-15 22:58:29 UTC
Thank you for reporting this issue in KDE software. As it has been a while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version?

If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "REPORTED" when replying. Thank you!
Comment 7 Bug Janitor Service 2022-11-30 05:14:29 UTC
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Comment 8 Bug Janitor Service 2022-12-15 05:14:39 UTC
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

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