Suspicion regarding the kmail "Retrieving Folder Contents - Please wait ..." problem

[Neal Becker]

No, my problem is not fixed.  Like so many times before, it seems to work for a 
while.  But then I click on one of my mail groups and it just sits saying it's 
updating (or something like that) forever.

Neal Becker wrote:

> OK, after quitting/restarting kmail a couple of times - could it be true????
> Did you find the magic key?  Seems to be working - but I'd better test for a
> couple of days - I've been fooled this way before.
> 
> Neal Becker wrote:
> 
>> Sounds like maybe this was causing my problems too.  But after making the
>> change, I have another problem, which is when I start kmail, now I get:
>> 
>> fetch job error: unable to fetch item from backend
>> 
>> While kmail appears to be trying to update inbox.
>> 
>> Rick Sewill wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> I have a suspicion regarding the kmail "Retrieving Folder Contents - Please
>>> wait ..." problem.
>>> 
>>> I started getting this problem recently.
>>> It was happening on a folder where imap is used with gmail.com.
>>> 
>>> I changed one of the imap parameters, on gmail.com,
>>> and for the moment, the problem disappeared.
>>> 
>>> I went to the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" Setting in gmail.com,
>>> found the "When I mark a message in IMAP as deleted:" setting,
>>> and changed the setting
>>> from "Auto-Expunge on - Immediately update the server. (default)"
>>> to "Auto-Expunge off - Wait for the client to update the server."
>>> 
>>> If other people are also having problems with kmail and use imap with
>>> gmail.com, could they also check this setting and change it.
>>> 
>>> I would like to know if changing this setting made my problem go away,
>>> or if my problem went away for some other reason.
>>> 
>>> I am using kdepim-4.4.11.1-5.fc15.x86_64.
>>> 
>>> If this change affects the problem, perhaps kmail is locally caching
>>> information from the gmail.com server, and the information is getting out of
>>> sync, and kmail is trying to use stale information.
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