Re: [opensuse] KMail/IMAP question

On Freitag 21 Dezember 2007, Rodney Baker wrote:
Hi all. Not sure if this is directly relevant to Suse or whether I
should be asking this on a kde-related list but here goes. I'm using
KMail 1.9.6 on 10.3 (KDE 3.5.7) running a Dovecot IMAP server so that
I can access my email from my desktop or a couple of laptops on the
lan.

For some reason the size value in the folder list (I assume this is
the size of each mail folder?) does not reduce in value when messages
are deleted from a folder, but continues to increase each time a new
message is received.

For example I currently have 5 messages in my inbox totalling around
24k in size but the folder list tells me that my inbox is 915kB.

I don't know if this is a bug with KMail and the way it interacts
with IMAP servers, if it is a bug with dovecot perhaps reporting
incorrectly to KMail or what.

I have previously tried running Cyrus IMAP but gave up on that a
couple of years ago - dovecot was so much easier to get running.

Whilst this isn't a showstopper (and I can get around it by disabling
the size column in the folder list), I'm wondering if anyone else on
the list is running a similar setup and may have noticed this
behaviour (perhaps even with a different IMAP server)?

Same setup, same behaviour, but if i have a look into the directories on
the server, the size is as expected. And the numbers are different,
like:

ffiene@proxy02:~/Maildir> du .linux.kernel/
36 .linux.kernel/cur
0 .linux.kernel/new
0 .linux.kernel/tmp
2404 .linux.kernel/

In KMail: Folder linux/kernel: 158.6MB

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