Bug 272854

Summary:	After upgrade, unhelpful IMAP error messages are unhelpful notifications
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Malte S. Stretz <mss>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.0.95
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Malte S. Stretz 2011-05-09 14:37:37 UTC

Version:           2.0.95 (using KDE 4.6.2) 
OS:                Linux

I just upgraded to KMail 4.6-beta5, via the Kubuntu (natty) experimental PPA (KDE 4.6.3, Akonadi 1.5.2).

After an otherwise uneventful migration, I was spammed by the Notification area with messages like "Remote Folders: Select failed, server replied: A000047 NO Invalid mailbox name".  After KMail started successfully, these appear regularly.

"Remote Folders" is the name of my IMAP account, the Annnnnn are probably the IMAP sequence numbers from my Dovecot server.  Still, I have no idea what is wrong here or even which folder is acting weird.  Also, I have idea on how to fix this.  That will be true for the average user, too, so unless the errors are significant (looks like everything works up to now), KMail should not spam me with errors I can't fix anyway.

After a while the error "Remote Folders: Unknown error. (Could not create collection)" popped up as well.

The server is dovecot 1.1.11-0ubuntu11.

Reproducible: Didn't try




OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.38-8-generic
Compiler: cc

Comment 1 Malte S. Stretz 2011-05-09 15:25:25 UTC

Looks like this is worse than I thought:  Some of my folders are empty (see bug 271913) and when I hit F5 I get the quoted error and no mail.  Looks like this happens for all non-toplevel folders (Inbox, Sent, etc. work, Sent/2011 eg. doesn't).

Comment 2 Malte S. Stretz 2011-05-09 15:55:32 UTC

After some poking around in the config and a restart of Akonadi I can now access subfolders, too.  Don't ask me what I did to fix this though.

Comment 3 Torgny Nyblom 2011-05-12 20:16:45 UTC

Could it be the "Prefix" setting? If so what is it set to?

Comment 4 Malte S. Stretz 2011-05-12 21:26:25 UTC

I thought so too.  But I can't find any option in KMail2 to set the IMAP prefix (does KMail/Akonadi support the Namespace extension?).

My mail server doesn't use any prefix (all folders are on the same level as INBOX).

Comment 5 Christophe Marin 2011-09-13 12:56:38 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 258635 ***