[Bug 288899] KMail often re-downloads the contents of the entire mail server

[Marcelo Sales]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288899

Marcelo Sales <mmtsales at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Marcelo Sales <mmtsales at gmail.com> ---
I have this problem occasionally too, but in my case it seems not to be related
to the error message the reporter mentioned (I got a lot of those too,
everytime, but they do not cause the messages to be re-downloaded from the
server).
What seems to trigger the problem here is a loss of internet connection. If the
internet connection fails while kmail is downloading messages, sometimes (not
always) it will download again all messages stored in the server, including the
ones already downloaded weeks or months ago, when the internet connection is
restablished.
This happens with my gmail accounts (which are configured in KMail as POP3
accounts, not IMAP accounts). I choose to leave the messages at the server
after download for exactly the same reason the original reporter mentioned: I
want to be able to download the messages again using other devices (smartphone,
tablet and computer).
However, sometimes KMail forgets what messages it had already downloaded and
downloads the entire server contents again.

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