Hi List, For many years, I had a problem where, after deleting a message from an IMAP folder in KMail, or moving a message from one folder to another, it would at first appear to be deleted/moved, but then, the next time the folder was refreshed to show what was on the server, a "ghost" of the removed message would reappear in its original location. The ghost could not be viewed or interacted with like a normal message. If I logged into the webmail for the affected account, the ghost messages would look just like normal messages.
This problem occurred with pretty much any IMAP account from any email service provider. I was going to post to ask advice about this, but I finally figured out what the issue is. In IMAP, it turns out, "delete" just means something like "flag this message for deletion during the next expunge", where "expunge" is another operation the client can ask to be performed. The "ghost" messages I'd been seeing were messages that were marked for deletion but not expunged. In KMail, it seems, the setting I needed was "Automatically compact folders (expunges deleted messages)" under the "Advanced" tab of the settings for each relevant IMAP account. This causes KMail to expunge the deleted messages pretty much straight away, eliminating the ghost messages. I would not be surprised if "Automatically compact folders" is the default and I mistakenly deselected it at some point. Hopefully this information will help one or two other KMail users with the same problem. Patrick -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-05-07 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
