Version: 1.9.1 (using KDE 3.5.1, compiled sources) Compiler: gcc version 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728 OS: FreeBSD (i386) release 5.4-RELEASE-p11 Since I upgraded to KDE 3.5, imap has stopped working correctly in kmail. I was using the kmail versions that came with kde 3.4.x to access an imap account on a remote server. When I upgraded KDE to 3.5 (including it's version of kmail), the imap account has not worked. Upgrading to kde 3.5.1 didn't help, nor did deleting the imap account and start from scratch (I've done that several times now). What seems to be happening is that kmail downloads all the email headers from the server, then it starts downloading the bodies and deletes them as it goes until it gets down to the most recent message. Then it starts the whole process again and keeps doing that for as long as kmail is running. As a result kmail runs very slowly and I can never access my imap mail. Pop mail works fine and I haven't changed anything on the remote server that may have caused a problem. I've tried changing all sorts of options in order to make it work, but here's the relevant part of kmailrc with my current settings: [Account 8] 0="Mail" 1="" Folder= Id=1316985081 Name=IMAP Account Namespace:=/ Namespace:Mail=/ Type=imap auth=* auto-expunge=true check-exclude=false check-interval=10 hidden-folders=false host=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx listOnlyOpenFolders=true loadondemand=true login=imoore port=993 precommand= sieve-alternate-url= sieve-port=2000 sieve-reuse-config=true sieve-support=false sieve-vacation-filename= store-passwd=true subscribed-folders=true trash=trash use-ssl=true use-tls=false
BTW, my imap server is: map-uw-2004g_1,1 University of Washington IMAP4rev1/POP2/POP3 mail servers
Looks like duplicate to bug 121866.
This can only happen when the server send false uids. Can you try to start ethereal and get a log of the communication when that happens?
> Looks like duplicate to bug 121866. Similar kind of thing, yes, though that one says it only happens once unless kmail crashes - mine just seems to keep doing it endlessly.
So it does for me sometimes when I have big attachments and without crash. That actually happened after that bug has been submitted. So I wouldn't be that sure that it's crash related. My kmail seems to be very prone to crash If I stress it (autocheck activated, multiple activities before last ones have been finished).
I've disabled autocheck for the imap account, I just have check on on startup enabled. I don't have crashes, kmail is quite stable for me, though I think it crashed a lot with the KDE 3.5 version. Then again, the mail on the imap server is just server logs and some hylafax notifications, so it's all short, plain text emails. Even so, they take forever to download/upload. I'm just installing ethereal at the moment and will post a trace - it could get pretty big, so I might upload it to my website and provide a link to it.
Ok, my packet trace is at http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/imap_trace There's 2 minutes worth there, that's from when I click on the IMAP folder and kmail starts downloading the headers, through to when it starts downloading the message bodies and deleting the emails. Hope it's of some help! PS I've changed my password already, just in case!
Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~imoore/imap_trace on this server.
Oops, it's fixed now.
The connection is encrypted therefore the trace is unfortunately useless. Any chance for a test account?
*** Bug 125113 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121866 ***