Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-26 Thread Timothy Murphy
Rex Dieter wrote: The moral of my story is to prevent issues languishing downstream indefinitely, to avoid the kind of comment this bug has been around forever, why is it still a problem and not fixed?, which does no one any good, esp when upstreams aren't made aware of the issues (which, by

Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Timothy Murphy wrote: You are going to find this difficult to believe, but I did not actually understand your reference to upstream in response to my query (I was the OP). Upstream is literally where the water you're seeing in the river is coming from. For software, it means where the software

Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-26 Thread Rex Dieter
Timothy Murphy wrote: Rex Dieter wrote: The moral of my story is to prevent issues languishing downstream indefinitely, to avoid the kind of comment this bug has been around forever, why is it still a problem and not fixed?, which does no one any good, esp when upstreams aren't made aware

Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-25 Thread Rex Dieter
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 24 June 2009 01:41:07 Kevin Kofler wrote: I know what distribution packagers do, I am a Fedora KDE packager. And we ask users to report their bugs upstream unless there is evidence that they're specific to Fedora. The vast majority of bugs which are reported

Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 01:41:07 Kevin Kofler wrote: I know what distribution packagers do, I am a Fedora KDE packager. And we ask users to report their bugs upstream unless there is evidence that they're specific to Fedora. The vast majority of bugs which are reported to us are NOT specific

Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-24 Thread Gary Greene
On 6/23/09 8:39 PM, Filipe Brandenburger filbran...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 20:41, Kevin Koflerkevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: I again reiterate: have you tested this on a vanilla installation of KDE? Don't assume its an upstream bug until you have verified it by getting

Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Gary Greene wrote: On 6/20/09 5:43 AM, Timothy Murphy But I have worked out that the cause of the problem is that there exists a kind of ghost folder, uidvalidity, which is listed among the folders on the kmail page but does not in fact seem to exist in my maildir on the server. Deleting

Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Rex Dieter wrote: But I have worked out that the cause of the problem is that there exists a kind of ghost folder, uidvalidity, which is listed among the folders on the kmail page but does not in fact seem to exist in my maildir on the server. Deleting the folder under kmail has no

Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 14:12:09 Rex Dieter wrote: Gary Greene wrote: On 6/20/09 5:43 AM, Timothy Murphy But I have worked out that the cause of the problem is that there exists a kind of ghost folder, uidvalidity, which is listed among the folders on the kmail page but does not in

Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Timothy Murphy wrote: Rex Dieter wrote: But I have worked out that the cause of the problem is that there exists a kind of ghost folder, uidvalidity, which is listed among the folders on the kmail page but does not in fact seem to exist in my maildir on the server. Deleting the folder

Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-23 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:53, Rex Dieterrdie...@math.unl.edu wrote: Timothy Murphy wrote: Rex Dieter wrote: Years?  Bugs filed?  If so, where? At random, here is one from 2006: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=364953 Timothy, did you read that web page? An excerpt: I

Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Years? Bugs filed? If so, where? At random, here is one from 2006: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=364953 Timothy, did you read that web page? An excerpt: I figured out how this bug could be resolved. KMail has introduced a configuration

Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-23 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: But having read the web-page, I still do not really understand. In my case there is a folder uidvalidity listed by kmail, but there is no file or directory with that name on the dovecot server. Maybe it's an

Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-23 Thread Gary Greene
Anne, the quoting on this got screwed, I'm not the one with the mail issue, since I build my own KDE builds and generally pull patches from the PIM Enterprise branch (I was the konstruct maintainer, so building from source for me isn't scary). I was commenting on the issue that Timothy was having.

Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-23 Thread Gary Greene
[On 6/23/09 7:53 AM, Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote: Timothy Murphy wrote: Rex Dieter wrote: But I have worked out that the cause of the problem is that there exists a kind of ghost folder, uidvalidity, which is listed among the folders on the kmail page but does not in fact seem

Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 21:56:21 Gary Greene wrote: Anne, the quoting on this got screwed, I'm not the one with the mail issue, since I build my own KDE builds and generally pull patches from the PIM Enterprise branch (I was the konstruct maintainer, so building from source for me isn't

Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
Gary Greene wrote: Debian patches the hell out of KDE, and so do most other distros, this bug should not be called a KDE bug unless you've completely verified with vanilla source and have fully analyzed the code paths to assure that it isn't a distribution patch that screwed the pooch. Huh?

Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-23 Thread Gary Greene
On 6/23/09 2:37 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Gary Greene wrote: Debian patches the hell out of KDE, and so do most other distros, this bug should not be called a KDE bug unless you've completely verified with vanilla source and have fully analyzed the code paths to assure

Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-23 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 20:41, Kevin Koflerkevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: I again reiterate: have you tested this on a vanilla installation of KDE? Don't assume its an upstream bug until you have verified it by getting the upstream sources and testing it. this is an upstream bug and needs

Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Greene
On 6/20/09 5:43 AM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: I'm running a dovecot/IMAP server under CentOS-5.3 on my desktop, reading the mail with KMail on my laptop. I have what seems a venerable and well-documented problem/bug; when I click on Check Mail I get an error message Error

Re: [CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Greene
On 6/22/09 12:31 PM, Gary Greene ggre...@minervanetworks.com wrote: On 6/20/09 5:43 AM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: I'm running a dovecot/IMAP server under CentOS-5.3 on my desktop, reading the mail with KMail on my laptop. I have what seems a venerable and well-documented

[CentOS] Minor dovecot/KMail problem

2009-06-20 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'm running a dovecot/IMAP server under CentOS-5.3 on my desktop, reading the mail with KMail on my laptop. I have what seems a venerable and well-documented problem/bug; when I click on Check Mail I get an error message Error while getting folder information ... Actually, this doesn't appear to