On 7/27/2011 9:04 AM, Stan Goodman wrote:
On 07/27/2011 12:19 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 2011-07-26 21:51, Stan Goodman wrote:
Earlier today I retrieved mail and found about ten incoming messages. I began to answer one of these, which took about a half hour (long thoughtful reply), and then noticed that there was only one remaining message in the inbox -- one that had arrived during the half hour, the others having vanished. While I stared at the screen aghast, the one remaining also evaporated before my eyes -- while my hands were nowhere near mouse or keyboard, so not on my initiative. I get this behaviour when fetchmail is running. Perhaps it could also happen if you have filters set to move matching emails to another folder, either in thunderbird or in the server.
Otherwise, there is another machine with the same account configured. Or somebody else is accessing your account.
You could also have kmail checking for email. The problem turned out to be in hardware.
The laptop machine that was assumed to be suspended was, in fact, active. The way I put that machine into suspended state is just to close the cover; but the switch that detects that the cover is closed occasionally doesn't notice that.
If you ask me, the account is behaving like one of those machines is popping it, rather than using imap. Just because the laptop was idling does not mean you imap mail should vanish. That's the beauty of imap, something is not marked read, or deleted until someone does it manually. But mix pop into that and all bets are off. Stuff just goes poof, and you are never sure which machine has it. Also if you have a smartphone those two are sometimes guilty of popping the mail. Any mail you read from multiple machines should use imap only. If possible disable pop on the account. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org