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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] Why is KMail so bad with GMail IMAP? FIXED!
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-12-02 19:47:18
Message-ID: 200712022047.22919 () erwin ! ingo-kloecker ! de
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On Sunday 02 December 2007, Jim Philips wrote:
> Jim Philips wrote:
> > Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> >> On Friday 30 November 2007, Jim Philips wrote:
> >>> Art Alexion wrote:
> >>>> Sorry for not trying to answer before.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thursday 29 November 2007 13:06:28 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> >>>>>> Sometimes KMail spends an hour trying to retrieve it, then it
> >>>>>> just times out.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Does this always happen or can you sometimes open the inbox
> >>>>> folder?
> >>>>
> >>>> Almost always.  I know there have been a few times when the
> >>>> inbox did open, maybe one in fifty.
> >>>>
> >>>>> If you are in the inbox folder, does pressing F5 to trigger a
> >>>>> check for new mail also intermittently result in this hang.
> >>>>
> >>>> Pressing  F5 does not appear to to trigger a check in the inbox,
> >>>> though it does for the other folders.  None of these operation
> >>>> has ever resulted in in kmail hanging.
> >>>>
> >>>> I want to emphasize that the problem is only with the Inbox.  I
> >>>> have never check the All Mail, but kmail handles the rest of my
> >>>> folders extremely well. Generally speaking, as they contain
> >>>> stuff that is archive and no longer in the Inbox, they are
> >>>> larger folders than the Inbox.
> >>>
> >>> I can confirm that my experience is exactly like Art's. I'm using
> >>> KDE 3.5.8 on Kubuntu 7.10
> >>
> >> Okay. Unfortunately, I'm still not able to reproduce the problem.
> >> Please submit a bug report (bugs.kde.org) if you haven't done so
> >> already stating the exact version you are using.
> >>
> >> FWIW, I'm using a self-compiled version of KMail (KMail 1.9.6
> >> enterprise 0.20071109.734585; using KDE 3.5.7 "release 72.2"
> >> openSUSE 10.3) and the rest of kdepim.
> >
> > Submitted as bug 153284.
>
> I started exchanging e-mails with another submitter on bugs.kde.org.
> His bug also related to KMail and Gmail. He had me go into KMail
> settings and the account settings and set the namespace for
> "personal" to "inbox" for my GMail setup. That fixed it. Performance
> is a little bit slow now, but entirely acceptable.

That's great news. So it seems the problem might be related to 
namespaces. FWIW, my Personal namespace is empty, so the problem might 
already have be fixed in the latest version.


Regards,
Ingo

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