On Friday 27 July 2007 22:26, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Friday 27 July 2007, cr <cr orcon.net.nz> wrote
about '[kde]
>
> Kmail - 'read' messages won't stay 'read'':
> > Hi, hope this is the right list to ask
>
> You might also try kde-linux and/or kde-pim next door.
They are more
> focused groups, but I might this list may be able to
provide some help.
>
> > I've been using Kmail for some years (under
Debian/Gnome 
> > I've just installed Deb 4.0r0 on a AMD64 and
Kmail's developed a weird
> > bug - it keeps marking (some) read messages as
'unread'. That is, I
> > read 'em (or select 'mark as read') and it does
the right thing, changes
> > them from blue to black - BUT if I swap to another
folder, then back to
> > inbox, those messages instantly change to blue
'unread' again.
>
> Using dIMAP, IMAP, POP, or local?
Using POP. It's exactly the same setup I've been using for
several years
(that is, it's a new install but I have all the settings,
permissions etc
for KPPP and Kmail noted down on a sheet of paper so when I
do a new install
I just use that).
I also copied across my old folders (I copied my old Inbox
as 'Inboxa' then
used Kmail to shift all the messages from Inboxa to Inbox).
Now those old
messages seem to be behaving themselves - but not the new
ones, so far as I
can tell.
All messages in
/home/<me>/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/inbox/cur look
the
same - they all have <me> as owner and permissions of
-rw-r--r--. Though
some of their names terminate in :2,S or :2,RS and some
don't.
(Hmm, I just used Kmail to 'mark all messages as read' and
looked again, the
suffixes haven't changed, so that can't be how Kmail
remembers them, it must
be something in the index file I guess).
> I've seen this happen sometimes on dIMAP if I mark
messages as read while I
> a downloading new mail. The flags from the server end
up overwriting
> local changes before the local chages are sent to the
server.
>
> It could also happen in IMAP if you end up refreshing
the folder before all
> commands have been sent to the server. Kmail will read
flags from the
> server again, and see the messages as still unread.
Waiting a few moments
> and refreshing the folder again should end up showing
the messages as
> read.
It can't be that since it happens instantly whether I'm on
or offline. But
many thanks for the suggestions.
My temporary workaround (since I usually read my mail
offline) is to mark ALL
messages as 'read' immediately before I download a new batch
of messages
then - before leaving the Inbox folder! - copy any
significant new messages
to a 'answerthis' folder, then I know that everything in my
inbox has been
processed so I can safely mark them all as 'read' next time.
Or I can use Balsa. But I prefer the look and feel of
Kmail.
cr
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