[kdepim-users] IMAP and permanent folder syncing

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Tuesday December 01 2015 14:23:39 Matthias Dahl wrote:

> several times a day, randomly, I open a new mail and Kmail2 only shows its 
> standard "Retrieving Folder Contents" screen while it is syncing the whole 

You're lucky that it doesn't get stuck in that screen (anymore)!

> This cannot be normal. Kmail2 is the only client connected to the folder(s), 
> so no changes really happen from the outside that could lead to it thinking 
> that the folder is somehow "dirty" and needs re-syncing. What does happen 
> though is that the sieve scripts I have in place move mails into their 
> appropriate folders -- and those naturally run in the context of Dovecot. But 
> that shouldn't trip up Kmail2.

KMail claims to be very standard-compliant, so there is a chance that Dovecot fails to do something it should do *according to "The Standard"* when a filter moves mail into a folder. Do you ever get this behaviour with the Inbox, for instance (presuming you access that one via IMAP)?

It also sounds like you could at least experiment with running the filters via KMail. You claim it's the only client connecting, so you apparently don't also have your phone, tablet, toilet-pc or whatever that's connecting to the IMAP server ;) . So it seems just as natural to run those Sieve filters from KMail: it knows how to do that.

KMail is a great client, but you have to accept its mindset (and that of its developers). This is why I ended up patching my IMAP server myself, because KMail refused to add support for a server root directory (= the one containing the imap"folders"). It was either that, or live with KMail dredging through my full $HOME or go back to Thunderbird ...

R.
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