[kdepim-users] Moving mail to folder makes it disappear

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Tuesday 18 May 2010, Pascal Bernhard wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> once again I have to ask for your kind help. I'm using a
> Googlemail-account with IMAP-protocol. Since yesterday, when I move
> a message from the 'general message' list to a folder (choosing the
> option 'Move here' in the dialogue box that opens when moving the
> mouse over the folder in question) Kmails starts executing the
> action but then I get the warning in the notification bar at the
> lower end that the "Action has been aborted" and then the message is
> totally gone. I can't find it anywhere after that. I can copy
> messages to folders though. any thoughts? Glad to provide some more
> information in case needed.

Googlemail works very erratic in combination with IMAP. The problem is 
that Google has its own idea of how you should deal with your mail. From 
Google's perspective folders are collections of messages satisfying 
certain criteria, e.g. messages with the same tag. From IMAP's 
perspective moving a message is nothing else but a copy followed by a 
deletion. Now, if you copy a message to a folder Google does in fact set 
the folder's tag on this message. I have no idea how Google handles the 
deletion of a message. Following Google's logic the deletion of a 
message will remove the tag corresponding to the folder containing the 
message. Therefore the message will vanish from the folder, but it 
should still be available in the All Messages folder (or whatever it is 
called). I'd look in this folder for the message you are missing.

I'm sure other users who are actually using Googlemail will be able to 
fill in the gaps in my description.


Regards,
Ingo
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