Bug 119288

Summary:	Strange and random buggy IMAP folder behavior
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	Casey Allen Shobe <cshobe>
Component:	IMAP	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bjoern
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	Disabled folder Disabled folder properties Grey folder icon

Description Casey Allen Shobe 2005-12-31 03:02:02 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

1. Some folders are randomly greyed out when right-clicking a message and browsing through the "Move To" folder list.  The properties windows for these folders will then show an "Access Control" tab, but then if I click cancel and bring up the properties window again, the Access Control tab is gone, and then the folder is no longer greyed out.

2. Some folders on IMAP accounts have a grey icon for no apparent reason.  No idea what that is supposed to mean, the properties look normal.

3. Annoyingly often, I'll start KMail, and instead of having an inbox listed at the top, way on down in alphabetical order is an "INBOX" folder instead, which is not considered an actual inbox, but just another random folder.  This problem comes and goes as it pleases.

Comment 1 Casey Allen Shobe 2005-12-31 03:02:53 UTC

Created attachment 14085 [details]
Disabled folder

No reason this folder should be disabled.

Comment 2 Casey Allen Shobe 2005-12-31 03:03:26 UTC

Created attachment 14086 [details]
Disabled folder properties

Here is shown the tab that then disappears when Cancel is clicked and
properties is brought up again.

Comment 3 Casey Allen Shobe 2005-12-31 03:03:44 UTC

Created attachment 14087 [details]
Grey folder icon

Why is it grey?

Comment 4 Carsten Burghardt 2005-12-31 12:46:26 UTC

> Grey folder icon
>
> Why is it grey?


This is used to indicate that the folder can not have content - i.e. mails. Is 
this not the case for the folder?

Comment 5 Casey Allen Shobe 2005-12-31 13:57:29 UTC

On Saturday 31 December 2005 11:46, Carsten Burghardt wrote:
> This is used to indicate that the folder can not have content - i.e. mails.
> Is this not the case for the folder?

No idea, the properties option for the folder is disabled as well.  I can 
select it easily enough (there are no messages in it).  It has a subfolder 
with content.  I'm not quite sure how there would exist a folder that can't 
contain anything on the server.  However, looking on the server the parent 
folder doesn't seem to exist, oddly:

# ls -lad .TSM*
drwx------  5 vpopmail vpopmail 312 Nov 29 19:05 .TSM Files.Archives/

This icon choice isn't especially (at all?) intuitive...

Comment 6 Carsten Burghardt 2006-01-01 12:45:22 UTC

> No idea, the properties option for the folder is disabled as well.  I can
> select it easily enough (there are no messages in it).  It has a subfolder
> with content.  I'm not quite sure how there would exist a folder that can't
> contain anything on the server.  However, looking on the server the parent
> folder doesn't seem to exist, oddly:


That's a namespace folder. It can have only subfolders but no messages so this 
is no bug.

> This icon choice isn't especially (at all?) intuitive...


It's the same icon that is used in konqueror.

So the only real bug is the inbox problem. Please compile kmail with debug 
symbols and attach the console output of kmail's startup when you see this 
behaviour.

For the future: please only one "problem" per report as it's otherwise hard to 
keep track.


Thanks!

Carsten

Comment 7 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-24 16:17:25 UTC

Is there still something to fix in a recent (KDE 4.3) kmail?

Comment 8 Laurent Montel 2015-04-12 09:58:15 UTC

Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback.