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

[Rex Dieter]

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."

Oh my, no wonder Mark Crispen has such scathing words for google's imap 
implementation, they may as well call this gmail setting: 
"actually follow imap behavior and specficiation (default not)"

-- rex