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Hi,
Since I have upgraded from kmail 1.13.7 to 4.8.2, I cannot delete mail from UW IMAP server. Messages are copied to the trash folder and removed from the message list, but after some time, when the folder refreshes, all deleted messages get refetched from the server. This looks like the messages have not been correctly deleted from the server using IMAP protocol. Messages marked as read get back marked as new while the folder refreshes. I have observed the same problems with kmail 4.8.1, 4.8.0 and 4.7.x. Akonadi version is 1.7.2. The IMAP server is UW (University of Washington) imapd version 2007e. On another machine I use kmail version 1.13.7 and mail deletions on UW imapd are durable. All versions of kmail correctly delete mail from dovecot IMAP server v. 2.0.16 and zimbra IMAP. Thus, as far as I know, only the combination of kmail 4.[78].*, akonadi and UW imapd does not delete mail. How can I further debug this combination of software? -- Bartosz Lis |
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Do you have any information in the logs, or in .xsession-errors?
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Hi,
When I delete mail I'm getting in my ~/.xsession-errors:
Logs of the IMAP server look trivial:
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I have a same problem.
When I tried run KMail from konsole:
When I tried delete message:
Logs in ~/.xsession-errors after starting kmail
Logs in ~/.xsession-errors after delete message
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Is your trash folder located on the IMAP server?
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No, my trash folder was a local folder. Deleted mail was copied to this folder, but not deleted from IMAP server.
After bcooksley's post I made a test. I did set up IMAP folder as a trash folder, then I deleted mail from the IMAP INBOX foler . After "deletion" the mail was copied to the IMAP trash folder and for a moment disapeared from INBOX. After a while INBOX was refetched and "deleted" mail reappeared. However, I had its copy in IMAP trash folder. Deleting mail, when the trash folder was local behaved in the same way. |
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I've checked with a developer, and deleting from a IMAP folder into a local Trash folder should work perfectly (and does so for them).
Unfortunately we are out of ideas here. Only thing I can think of is trying to reproduce this behaviour under a new user.
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