[NBLUG/talk] Bug in IMAP handling of current versions of KMail

[Lincoln Peters]

I just stumbled across and reported a bug in how KMail 1.9.1 (which ships with 
KDE 3.5.1, the latest version) behaves when checking an IMAP account for new 
mail.  It doesn't seem to cause any data loss, but it does make it much much 
slower when checking mail.

Thus far, the problem doesn't seem to affect disconnected* IMAP accounts, but 
since I'm running KMail on the actual mail server, I don't want to use 
disconnected IMAP.

<http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121866>


* Disconnected IMAP accounts are just like any other IMAP account, except that 
both the client and the server store their own copies of the mailboxes.  When 
you check your mail on a disconnected IMAP account, you're essentially 
synchronizing the two sets of mailboxes.  Disconnected IMAP would be 
inappropriate for a mail client running on the mail server because I would 
end up storing two copies of every message on the same computer (and in such 
a way that the resulting redundancy would NOT serve to protect the data).


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Lincoln Peters
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