Am Dienstag 20 Januar 2009 schrieb Timo Sirainen:
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 07:21 +0100, Wilhelm Meier wrote:
Hi,
Am Montag 19 Januar 2009 schrieb Timo Sirainen:
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 18:32 +0100, Wilhelm Meier wrote:
kmail instead seems to have some problems: if I save a mail
into the shared-folder, the other users are seeing this new
mail almost immediately. But if I delete(!) a mail from the
shared-folder, the list of the other kmails remains untouch.
Refreshing does nothing. I have to close kmail and restart.
Is this related to some sort of wrong config of the shared
mailboxes or is this a (known) dovecot - kmail problem?
My guess is that kmail assumes it's the only client accessing
the mailbox and doesn't bother handling IMAP notifications
about expunged messages.
If I delete the mail via kmail, the mail gets the T flag, but
the mail-file remains there and the other kmail shows the mail
(strange?). If I afterwards open the mailfolder via e.g.
squirrelmail, the mail-file gets deleted, and it vanishes from
the kmail list, if I refresh the view in kmail.
OK, so what you're saying is that you're only marking messages with
\Deleted flag, you're not really expunging them from disk. And
kmail ignores flag changes done by other clients (or does it see if
another client changes e.g. \Seen flag?) kmail notices the EXPUNGEs
anyway.
So what the kmail users would need to do is to trigger the EXPUNGE
using kmail somehow, there's probably a expunge, compact or
something like that somewhere.
Thanks for this hint: the problem is partly solved: kmail has a
flag auto-expunge. I set this to true and then kmail asynchronously
does the expunge. It seems that selecting INBOX in kmail triggers
this event. Refreshing the folder or retrieving new messages doesn't!
Other question: is it save with respect to dovecot to remove
the T-flagged messages in the maildir, e.g. per inotify? Yes, this
is a hack, I know.
The difference is, that squirrelmail does a login/logout every
time it looks for mails. kmail stays logged in.
What squirrelmail probably does is a real EXPUNGE instead of only
marking the messages as \Deleted.
--
Wilhelm
