On 6/22/09 12:31 PM, "Gary Greene" <ggre...@minervanetworks.com> wrote: > On 6/20/09 5:43 AM, "Timothy Murphy" <gayle...@eircom.net> wrote: >> I'm running a dovecot/IMAP server under CentOS-5.3 on my desktop, >> reading the mail with KMail on my laptop. >> >> I have what seems a venerable and well-documented problem/bug; >> when I click on "Check Mail" I get an error message >> "Error while getting folder information" ... >> Actually, this doesn't appear to have the slightest effect >> on kmail, which works perfectly if one just presses Continue. >> >> But I have worked out that the cause of the problem >> is that there exists a kind of ghost folder, "uidvalidity", >> which is listed among the folders on the kmail page >> but does not in fact seem to exist in my maildir on the server. >> >> Deleting the folder under kmail has no permanent effect; >> it simply re-appears when I re-start kmail. >> >> I assume the folder is listed in some way in the dovecot.index ; >> and my question really is: if I delete this index file >> will it be re-created automatically? >> >> This bug/feature seems to have been present for years, >> which I suppose is par for KDE. > > More like par for RH, since they focus on GNOME instead. (Can't wait to see > when RHEL/CentOS when they base the KDE in it off the work of the Fedora KDE > volunteers... Likely in 6.) > >> To make it as difficult as possible to diagnose, >> the error message on the kmail page is incomplete, >> even when expanded to the whole screen. >> In particular it does not specify (on the visible part) >> what folder is causing the problem. >> Nor is the error listed with other dovecot information >> in /var/log/messages . >> >> Any suggestions/advice gratefully received. >>
Replying to my own message since I forgot to add... Can you look at the debugging output for Kmail in ~/.xsession-errors, since much of the KDE debugging channels get logged here. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
