[Kde-pim] KMail hallucinates mails in "account" folder

[Daniel Vratil]

On Wednesday 24 of September 2014 14:20:34 Mara Raram wrote:
> Hello kdepim,
> 
> As I got no real help from kdepim-users, I'm trying my luck here.
> 
> Since recently KMail shows me a count of 1'000 (exactly) messages in the
> "top folder" of my IMAP account (see attached screenshot). This "folder"
> represents the mail account, I do not think there should nor could ever
> exist any messages there.

You are right, there should be no emails in this folder. No Items at all for 
that matter.

> Alas, this is not cosmetic. The automatic archiving does not work
> anymore. While I can archive any folder of the account seperately,
> archiving the whole account fails with an error message (translated back
> from German):
> 
> Folder "imap-1" could not be archived. Downloading of a message to
> folder "imap-1" failed.
> 
> (Der Ordner „imap-1“ kann nicht archiviert werden. Das Herunterladen
> einer Nachricht in den Ordner „imap-1“ ist fehlgeschlagen.)
> 
> Any help in fixing this problem?

Could you try opening that folder in Akonadi Console to see what it contains? 
If those emails are just copies of emails existing elsewhere, we can manually 
delete those duplicates from the database.


I think the items might have been moved/copied into that folder by a broken 
mail filter or something like that - it appears that we don't enforce mimetype 
or ACL restrictions in server handlers at all, so it's only up to clients to 
"behave", which sounds like a bug to me.


Dan

> 
> This is KDE 4.14.1 from the KDE:Current repository on opensuse 12.3
> 
> The mail account is offline IMAP with STARTTLS, the IMAP server is
> Novell Groupwise.
> 
> Any help in how to resolve this problem would be appreciated.
> 
> Regards
> Mara

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Daniel Vrátil | dvratil at redhat.com | dvratil on #kde-devel, #kontact, #akonadi
KDE Desktop Team
Associate Software Engineer, Red Hat

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