[opensuse] KMail - IMAP - Speakeasy --- BAD
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Дана недеља 25 новембар 2007, Steve Jacobs је написао(ла):
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.
I have a lot more ~ 9000.
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
What is Speakeasy? I found on Google "Speakeasy, a Best Buy Company, offers superior Voice over IP (VoIP), T1, DSL and a range of broadband services customized for small businesses.", but I don't know if you are refering to that. And I don't know if that is at all relevant. KMail has two types of IMAP. You have the regular IMAP that should just download the headers and then download the messages as and if you read them. The other type is the so called "cached imap". That is a variation where it does download the messages but keeps them in sync with the server (ie if you delete the message from the server it will be deleted from kmail as well). I am using cached imap for quite a while (5 or 6 years at least). Using filters I move some of the messages out of the inbox and into some other folders (such as a folder for opensuse mailing list), but the rest of the messages are kept in the inbox so that I can access them using webmail or mobile (same as you and probably many others).
individual messages. It looked like KMail was downloading full messages, although my understanding of IMAP is that KMail should have ... 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?
The only unique thing about your environment (or at least different from my setup) is that you are probably using regular imap instead cached imap (although I don't think that should make a difference) and that your imap provider is speakeasy.net and not laposte.net (my provider). Could you find out what imap server is being used @ speakeasy? The mos probable reason why KMail isn't working correctly as far as I can think of any reason is that of a strange imap server. But if speakeasy is a large ISP company widely spread in the US as it looks on their site, I guess that somebody should have seen that problem. Happy hacking Filip PS: Are you using some additional software apart from kmail, such as spamassassin or some virus scaner? Could it be that the messages had to be filtered through some of those programs? - -- Filip Brcic <brcha@gna.org> WWWeb: http://purl.org/NET/brcha/home/ Jabber: brcha@kdetalk.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHSVOaeugpoxYs6H8RAhc6AKCl1wJBgfq+MYIVu/7WjhW5E0f9cQCfWPf9 T1PFmnDE8zgnmNhjI8BV36c= =/qKp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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