Downgrading kmail

[Neal Becker]

Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Thursday 03 Nov 2011 Neal Becker wrote:
>> Colin J Thomson wrote:
>> > Hi Anne,
>> > 
>> > On Wednesday 02 Nov 2011 12:48:30 Anne Wilson wrote:
>> >> I've given up hope of getting KMail2 working with Fedora 15.  Do I have
>> >> to remove the whole of kdepim?  I'd just downgrade KMail if that's
>> >> possible.
>> > 
>> > Downgrade these:
>> > kdepim-libs
>> > kdepim-runtime
>> > kdepim
>> > kdepim-runtime-libs
>> > 
>> > An it will remove grantlee as well
>> > 
>> > HTH
>> > 
>> > Colin
>> 
>> I did downgrade using:
>> 
>> sudo yum --disablerepo=fedora-kde47 downgrade kdepim kdepim-libs
>> kdepim-runtime kdepim-runtime-libs
>> 
>> Start up kmail, and setup dimap with gmail.
>> 
>> It almost works, except 1 (very important!) thing.  I have may imap folders
>> (mailing lists), and they got updated fine.  But the one most important,
>> 'inbox', only updated up to April 2010.  I tried manually updating,
>> quit/restart kmail, rebuild imap cache.  No help.  When updating the
>> 'inbox' folder, it shows hitting 31% complete, then just sits a long time,
>> and eventually goes on to the next folder.
>> 
> Odd!  My downgrade didn't have that problem.  I'm not altogether happy with it
> - Kontact seems to have problems that were not there when under 4.6.x - but
> all my messages are there.
> 
> Anne

I wonder if something (google?) is just limiting the amount I can fetch via 
dimap.  My inbox is pretty big.  OTOH, before switching kmail->kmail2->kmail, I 
didn't have a problem.