On Thursday 08 February 2007, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I am running kmail on OpenSuse 10.0, using the latest KDE 3.5.6 build. The problem I am having has been around in previous releases as well.
kmail connects to a local imap server (courier-imap-4.0.4-3.2) to access mail. The maildir is populated by procmail as mail arrives, sorting messages into numerous folders as they arrive. kmail does not access the maildir, but is told to talk to the imap server.
The issue I have with kmail is that it seems to get the wrong idea of when there is a new message in a folder. Quite often it will say there are 50 new messages when there are none. When I click on the folder, it figures that there were none. But until I click on the folder, the wrong idea about new messages remains. There is no other process (other than procmail) accessing the maildir folder. kmail is the only client to this imap server.
I use evolution in the exact same setup and it never gets this wrong. So I cannot believe the imap server is the cause. Unless evolution silently deals with this.
Anyone else seen this?
Yes, I see the same and I am running the cyrus imapd, so it does not sound like a courier problem. I have kmail 1.9.6 on kde 3.5.6 I initially thought that setting the mail check interval smaller would help, but it seems not to matter, and I have to occasionally click into a folder to get an accurate count. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen