Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3221 mails)

["Steve Jacobs" <stevetjacobs@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm running OpenSUSE 10.3 - 32-bit. Aside from YOU updates,
non-free/OSS codecs, and Azureus, nothing has been installed to the
machine since the OS install.

In case it's relevant, I tend to keep a LOT of messages in the Inbox.
Prior to what I describe here, there were probably over 2000 messages
in my Inbox.

A couple of weeks ago I started up KMail for the first time. I
configured it to access my Speakeasy mailbox, using IMAP, as I
maintain my email on a different PC and didn't want items removed from
the server. Upon connecting to the mailbox, KMail began rapidly
showing 5 or 6 pop-up windows displaying progress on various
individual messages. It looked like KMail was downloading full
messages, although my understanding of IMAP is that KMail should have
only been retrieving subject headers. Unsure if Kmail was behaving
properly or not, I let it run, but periodically checked my email
through it's web-interface to ensure the messages weren't being
deleted from the server. After 2-3 hours of this, I killed the KMail
process. When I looked more closely at my Inbox via webmail, I noticed
that the messages all listed timestamps corresponding to when Kmail
acted on them, in the Inbox listing. If I opened the message, though,
the correct timestamp appeared there.

Afterward, my phone, which also retrieves the messages via IMAP,
became seriously confused trying to retrieve the messages. I
attributed this to the screwed up timestamps, and used my main PC &
POP to retrieve the entire contents of the Inbox. After that the phone
had no further problems, and all emails that arrived after that
occasion displayed accurate timestamps.

Tonight I worked up the courage to try KMail again. I still was unsure
if the original problem was caused by Kmail, or was a one-time problem
on the server that had caused problems for KMail. When I tried KMail
tonight, I had 53 messages in the Inbox. Kmail connected, displayed
the number of messages in the Inbox, and proceeded to de-crement the
Inbox count, and indicated that they were being deleted. When I then
looked again at the Inbox via webmail, the timestamps were screwed up
again, in the same way - the timestamps in the Inbox list showed the
time that Kmail touched them, but opening the messages showed the
accurate time.

It seems to me that KMail is clearly, and quite obviously broken. I'd
think that this problem would be so obvious, and on such a
high-profile app, that I'd have read about the problem on this list,
or would find many mentions of it via Google. But I haven't seen
anything about it.

Does anybody here have any idea what I might be encountering here, or
what's unique about my environment to trigger such a strange problem?

Thanks,
Steve
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