[kdepim-users] Repeated emails - Version 4.7.3 Using KDE Development Platform 4.7.3 (4.7.3) "release 10" (opensuse 11.4)

[ianseeks]

On Tuesday 22 Nov 2011 14:34:39 Andras Mantia wrote:
> ianseeks wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Is anyone else retrieving the same email repeatedly?  I've got a few
> > emails
> > that keep being retrieved every time i run Kmail.  Each email keeps the
> > same date and time and shows as a new email.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Is this in a maildir folder? 

Yes.

> If yes, there is abug there I'm aware of
> causing similar symptomps.
> Explanation:
>  In maildir, there are "new" and "cur" subfolders. When you read a mail, it
> is moved from new to cur and some suffix is added to the file name.
> If for some reason the mail is only copied and not moved, you will have in
> both places under new/yourmail and cur/yourmail:2,S . At the next sync it
> finds again new/yourmail, but cannot do the move as there is already a
> cur/yourmail:2,S. It doesn't move so it doesn't overwrite important data,
> but I agree, it should be more clever and in worst case ask the user what to
> do.
> Anyway, you can check this based on the above information and if this is the
> case, just remove the mail from the new folder.

I'll try that and see if it stops the few recurring emails.

> 
> Andras
 THanks

ian

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