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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] Weird behaviour of KMail when accessing IMAP
From:       Stephan Witoszynskyj <stephan () buddynet ! htu ! tuwien ! ac ! at>
Date:       2006-06-12 11:12:33
Message-ID: 200606121312.34054.stephan () buddynet ! htu ! tuwien ! ac ! at
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Hi,

Thank you very much for your reply! You were absolutely right. I turned of the 
spam filter and everything works as expected.

Regards,
  Stephan

Am Sonntag, 11. Juni 2006 20:10 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> On Wednesday 07 June 2006 23:07, Stephan Witoszynskyj wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just upgraded to KDE 3.5.2 and Kontact 1.2 (distribution:
> > Ubuntu) and am very confused about KMails behaviour when accessing
> > IMAP accounts. Actually, I am deeply disturbed by what is going on.
> >
> > KMail couldn't use my account old settings so I removed all accounts
> > and set them up again. When KMail accesses the INBOX for the first
> > time, it seems to download all messages and upload them again. At
> > least on one occassion it seemed to do it more than once. It does not
> > seem to do it on any other mailbox. But I don't really want to try
> > unless I understand what's going on.
> >
> > Can anybody tell me if this is normal and why KMail is doing it?
>
> I guess the following is happening:
> Since KDE 3.5 KMail supports client-side filtering. If you use filters
> then KMail will now (unless told otherwise) also filter all messages
> appearing in your INBOX. In order to check whether a filter matches a
> message KMail has to download the message. It's possible that in case
> no filter matches KMail again uploads the message to the INBOX. Or do
> you probably have some filters which alter messages, e.g. do you use
> spam filtering in KMail? In this case KMail obviously has to upload the
> altered message to the server.
>
> You can choose whether a filter should be applied also on IMAP accounts
> on the Advanced settings in the filter configuration dialog.
>
> Regards,
> Ingo
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