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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: How do I refresh a folder?
From:       Carsten Burghardt <burghardt () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-12-30 16:08:10
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Am Montag, 23. Dezember 2002 15:42 schrieb Kyler Laird:
> >> So...I'll try to answer my question without having tested it yet
> >> (because I'm having difficulties with Courier).  Yes, KMail is
> >> unable to detect changes in its local maildir folders without
> >> restarting and there are no plans to fix this.
> >
> >Wrong. There are plans to fix this. It's just that we are currently busy
> >fixing other more important stuff.
>
> Yea!  Just knowing that it's in the works is a comfort.
>
> >>  However, it is able
> >> to detect changes in IMAP folders (assuming, I am guessing, that the
> >> IMAP server is set up to allow checking for new mail in all folders,
> >> but maybe it doesn't use the indication feature).
> >
> >KMail currently doesn't listen for any signals from the IMAP server like
> >a new mail signal.
>
> Ouch!  So it's not compliant with IMAP4?
>    5.2.    Mailbox Size and Message Status Updates

I'm not sure if the kioslave uses this.

> >In order to make it detect changes in IMAP folders
> >you have to check for new mail (manually or with interval checking).
>
> That statement takes some further specification.  KMail only checks
> folders that it already knows about.  (It only does "LIST %" at the
> start of a session.)  If a new folder is added outside of KMail, it is
> ignored until KMail is restarted.

Or until the account-folder is collapsed and expanded.

> Further, if a folder is removed outside of KMail, it will complain about
> it not existing everytime it's checked, but will not remove it unless
> KMail is restarted.

This is fixed in kde 3.1

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