No love lost between KMail/Akonadi and fetchmail/postfix/mbox...

[Anj Tuesday]

I use fetchmail and postfix to regularly retrieve mail from a number of
POP accounts; it ends up in /var/mail/anj. I also have an Akonadi mbox
resource pointed at that file so I can easily get at all my mail with
any random email client I might want to try.

This works fine with Thunderbird or Evolution as well as console mailers
like Alpine... and it has worked fine in the past with pre-Akonadi
KMail.

But now Akonadi pops up four notifications every time I receive mail
to complain that file:///var/mail/anj has been changed by another
program and that a backup has been created. Isn't it *supposed* to be
changed by another program? How else would it receive email?

I can turn off file monitoring for the Akonadi mbox resource, but then
KMail never finds any new email any more!

I tried the procmail and mutt lockfile options but they don't help
with that (clearly I'm also in way over my head here!).

If anyone has any ideas (except "stop trying to be all UNIXy with
fetchmail and postfix")... I'd love to hear them.

Be well,
Anja