kmail - akonadi not starting

[bendy]

Hi all

I decided to do a clean, fresh install for the first time in years, and that meant setting up my email accounts in kmail again from scratch.

As seems traditional, I ran into akonadi problems. When I start kmail I get an error message saying that akonadi hasn't started, along with a button to click in order to start akonadi. Clicking this button works, akonadi starts, and email appears.

This seems a wasted and redundant step (and I have a vague feeling I ran into something similar before). Does anyone know how to get akonadi to start itself automatically, rather than seeing this kmail error message and clicking start?

Thanks!

[GreyGeek]

That start button sometimes appears on my Neon installation as well. I think it is a timing issue, but as long as it works most of the time and I only have to push the button one out of 25 bootups it's not a big enough problem to worry about.

[Worzel]

Go to Settings - System settings - Startup and Shutdown - Autostart.

Select "Add Script" - click folder icon, go to and select /usr/bin/akonadi_control

Status = Enabled
Run On = Startup

Msg to self - Must learn how to properly format this type of reply

[bendy]

Thanks GreyGeek and Worzel. This was happening every time, so needed a fix. Your suggestion worked Worzel -thank you.

However, I shouldn't need to manually tell akonadi to start using a script. Surely the correct behavior would be for akonadi to start when I start kmail or any of the PIM suite? Should I file a bug report?