[Bug 244860] Kmail reports, that server doesn't support UIDL

[Andreas Gustavsson]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244860





--- Comment #9 from Andreas Gustavsson <andrgust gmail com>  2011-05-05 14:51:03 ---
I should add that I have NOT experienced the described UIDL error message.

Also, I should describe my situation a little clearer. When referring to the
inbox in kmail I will use "local inbox", and when referring to the mail account
inbox I will simply use "inbox". I have a lot of messages in my inbox which are
marked as read; I will call these messages "old". 

I have noticed that if I have one or more new messages in my inbox, kmail is
not guaranteed to recognize any message as new. On a mail check, the status bar
of kmail can give the message "[time] Transmission for account xxx complete. No
new messages.", even though I actually know that there are new messages, thanks
to e.g. kopete and web browser access to my inbox.

Another thing I have noticed, when kmail finds some new messages in my inbox,
is that (not necessarily, but most often, all) old messages are incorrectly
recognized as new and downloaded to my local inbox. In all, except one, cases
when I have noticed this behavior, all old messages in my inbox were
(incorrectly) recognized as new and downloaded together with an actual new
message. In the exceptional case, about one third of the old messages were
(incorrectly) recognized as new and downloaded together with an actual new
message.

I have *not* noticed that kmail incorrectly recognizes old messages as new if
there are only old messages in my inbox. However, I cannot guarantee that this
could not occur.

Has someone noticed that the above case can occur?

I cannot guarantee that the above is an exhaustive description of the erroneous
behavior of kmail, but I hope it helps in pinpointing the root of the problem.

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