On Thursday 08 February 2007, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > I am running kmail on OpenSuse 10.0, using the latest KDE 3.5.6 build. The > problem I am having has been around in previous releases as well. > > kmail connects to a local imap server (courier-imap-4.0.4-3.2) to access > mail. The maildir is populated by procmail as mail arrives, sorting > messages into numerous folders as they arrive. kmail does not access the > maildir, but is told to talk to the imap server. > > The issue I have with kmail is that it seems to get the wrong idea of when > there is a new message in a folder. Quite often it will say there are 50 > new messages when there are none. When I click on the folder, it figures > that there were none. But until I click on the folder, the wrong idea about > new messages remains. There is no other process (other than procmail) > accessing the maildir folder. kmail is the only client to this imap server. > > I use evolution in the exact same setup and it never gets this wrong. So I > cannot believe the imap server is the cause. Unless evolution silently > deals with this. > > Anyone else seen this?
Yes, I see the same and I am running the cyrus imapd, so it does not sound like a courier problem. I have kmail 1.9.6 on kde 3.5.6 I initially thought that setting the mail check interval smaller would help, but it seems not to matter, and I have to occasionally click into a folder to get an accurate count. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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