Re: GMail in KMail and secure IMAP
Hi!
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A couple of days ago I configured KMail to get my GMail using IMAP according to these instructions:
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78799
> It then tried to retrieve all the msgs I have in GMail, but along the way it apparently modified
> various msgs and tried to upload them, causing years old msgs to appear at the top of my mail list.
> While I don't understand why it would do that (and I think it's wrong for trying) I wanted to
> overlook it as a one-time issue.
> But every now-and-then I get a popup msg saying it failed to append sth to a msg and gives me the
> option to continue or cancel. While neither option is clear to me what it does, it make the popup go
> away. The popup occur with the same msg(s) every time, so it looks that it keeps trying to do it.
>
> How can I fix this error/popup from keep appearing?
>
> Also, when a msg arrives, I see it both in my inbox and in the "All Mail" folder and reading one,
> doesn't mark the other unread.
> Does someone has some tips and tricks how to properly deal with 'issues' like this and reading GMail
> in KMail in general?
>
Sometimes I suffer from messages being "deleted" (they still appear in
"All Mail" but are not tagged), it was more frequent when handling a
large folder with lots of emails and synchronizing automatically each
5 minutes. Sometimes the connection was lost during synchronization
and in subsequent attempts the emails were "deleted" instead of being
marked as read (the connection lost can be due to my poor upload
speed). Since switching to manual synchronization this doesn't occur
anymore, or at least I'm not able to realize it. BTW I use
disconnected IMAP.
I suggest to not download "All Mail" folder, all email are downloaded
twice if you do that. Also folders with lots of email can be really
painful to synchronize I've opted for splitting by years, ie
debian,debian-2008,debian-2007, etc.
>
> I also have another mail account which I access through secure IMAP, setup according to these
> instructions: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Secure_E-mail
> Usually it works when setup like that. Sometimes I get time-out errors. Sometimes KMail (not me!)
> changes that IMAP setting to use port 143 instead of 993 (TLS still enabled in either case).
> Sometimes the time-out errors disappear when set to port 143, but not always.
> And today I send an email, but it hasn't shown up in my Sent mail folder for that account, but I can
> see it's there through webmail. Explicitly synchronizing the Sent mail folder doesn't help either.
>
I think IMAP has a cache, and there's a context menu with an option to
clear it, sorry I can't point it exactly I'm not at home right now.
> Why does KMail change my settings without me telling so? How can/should I configure KMail so it does
> it's work more reliable (with secure IMAP)?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Diederik
>
>
Regards,
Ismael
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