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

[Neal Becker]

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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