[Bug 197272] New: Dovecot IMAP phantom folder

[Timothy Murphy]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197272

           Summary: Dovecot IMAP phantom folder
           Product: kmail
           Version: 1.11.3
          Platform: Fedora RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: gayleard at eircom.net


Version:           1.11.3 (using KDE 4.2.3)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

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 have the slightest effect
on kmail, which works perfectly if one just presses Continue.

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 permanent effect;
it simply re-appears when I re-start kmail.

This bug/feature seems to have been present for years,
which I suppose is par for KDE.
To make it as difficult as possible to diagnose,
the error message on the kmail page is incomplete,
even when expanded to the whole screen.
In particular it does not specify (on the visible part)
what folder is causing the problem.
Nor is the error listed with other dovecot information
in /var/log/messages .

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