Kmail "read" status recorded separately in inbox and gmail folders

[gene heskett]

On Sunday, 15 May 2022 06:35:31 EDT René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Saturday May 14 2022 19:03:41 Nathan Upchurch wrote:
> >I have several gmail accounts set up in kmail via IMAP. When I click 
on an email from one of these IMAP accounts in either:
> >     *  Unified Mailboxes > Inbox, or
> >     *  IMAP Account Folder > Inbox,
> >
> >the email is marked as read and the counter beside the folder
> >decrements. The read status of the email, however, does not apply to
> >the same email in /IMAP Account Folder > [Gmail] > (All Mail |
> >Important)/, and I have to click on the email in both /All Mail/ and
> >/Important /for the email status to change to /Read /in each of those
> >folders. Any idea how to fix this?
> Ian is right that you should ask on kdepim-users (I am thus
> cross-posting!), but if I read you correctly you're describing
> *expected* IMAP behaviour. It's a gmail quirk that their email labels
> (via the web UI) show up as email folders. A priori you cannot *move*
> a message from "All Mail" to any other folder (the action will be a
> *copy* instead). I know that's not a bug in KMail but I would also not
> consider it a bug if the application had a workaround. Your issue
> sounds like something similar: someone saw a justification to
> implement a mechanism through which the *apparent* copies of a message
> in "All Mail" and wherever else you keep it can have different read
> statuses.
> 
> It's also not completely impossible that Google are experimenting with
> a new feature. The more important question is thus how the message
> appears in the gmail web UI >in both folders!< . It'd also be
> interesting to know how the status appears in KMail on another machine
> (or under a different account). There was a time when I think the
> *flagged* status did not sync back properly to GMail so a message
> flagged on one machine would not show up as such on the other. Or
> maybe KMail simply did not take remote changes to this property into
> account, so you'd also have to check how your KMail copy reacts to
> messages being marked un/read via the web interface; does the status
> change in KMail?
> 
> R.

I would not expect a ready answer here either, I have 3 local folders 
that show an unread count in the left folder list panel. But complaining 
did not as yet get me an answer. I did get rid of the new copies problem 
that would get me 20+ new copies of the same message overnight, by 
telling knail to delete from the server, any message I deleted here. But 
I have 3 local folders that show an unread count, but when I go to the 
folder, there are no unread messages to read.  And how to fix that was 
asked on this list over a month ago with no sensible response. What I was 
told to look for and delete, does not exist. Or at least can't be found 
by akonadi-console.

Take care and stay well all.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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