[Bug 265563] New: No way to force-refresh the contents of a folder

[Davor Cubranic]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265563

           Summary: No way to force-refresh the contents of a folder
           Product: kmail
           Version: 1.13.5
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: index
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: cubranic at acm.org


Version:           1.13.5 (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

Occasionally, KMail gets completely out-of-sync with contents of an IMAP
folder. When that happens, nothing I do in the UI (check mail in this folder,
refresh folder list) can get KMail back in sync with the actual state of the
folder. The only solution is to exit the application, delete the folder's
index, and restart KMail.

This actually happens with some regularity for the Sent folder on the server.
Typically, at the start of the month it is automatically moved to a
"Sent-mmm-yyyy" folder, and a clean Sent started in its place. KMail is not
running at that time, but the next time it runs it misses this change and still
shows the old contents in Sent.

It may be too difficult to detect when something like this happens and handle
it correctly, although it would be the preferred solution. But as a workaround,
can at least there be a UI action that will force-refresh the folder? I don't
know if this should be done as part of "Check mail in this folder" (F5) or if
there should be a new action (Shift-F5, similar to how refresh/force-refresh of
a page is done in some browsers). But either would be better than expecting the
user to deal with bad index files by hand.

Reproducible: Sometimes




OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.35-25-generic
Compiler: cc

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