Interesting, cos thunderbird does this as well - I'll see if I can find an option for that in there too.
Hamish On 12/04/2019 12:05, Patrick Wigmore wrote: > Hi List, > > For many years, I had a problem where, after deleting a message from > an IMAP folder in KMail, or moving a message from one folder to > another, it would at first appear to be deleted/moved, but then, the > next time the folder was refreshed to show what was on the server, a > "ghost" of the removed message would reappear in its original > location. The ghost could not be viewed or interacted with like a > normal message. If I logged into the webmail for the affected account, > the ghost messages would look just like normal messages. > > This problem occurred with pretty much any IMAP account from any email > service provider. > > I was going to post to ask advice about this, but I finally figured > out what the issue is. > > In IMAP, it turns out, "delete" just means something like "flag this > message for deletion during the next expunge", where "expunge" is > another operation the client can ask to be performed. The "ghost" > messages I'd been seeing were messages that were marked for deletion > but not expunged. > > In KMail, it seems, the setting I needed was "Automatically compact > folders (expunges deleted messages)" under the "Advanced" tab of the > settings for each relevant IMAP account. This causes KMail to expunge > the deleted messages pretty much straight away, eliminating the ghost > messages. > > I would not be surprised if "Automatically compact folders" is the > default and I mistakenly deselected it at some point. > > Hopefully this information will help one or two other KMail users with > the same problem. > > > > Patrick > -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-05-07 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
