Sounds like maybe this was causing my problems too. But after making the change, I have another problem, which is when I start kmail, now I get: fetch job error: unable to fetch item from backend While kmail appears to be trying to update inbox. Rick Sewill wrote: > > I have a suspicion regarding the kmail "Retrieving Folder Contents - Please > wait ..." problem. > > I started getting this problem recently. > It was happening on a folder where imap is used with gmail.com. > > I changed one of the imap parameters, on gmail.com, > and for the moment, the problem disappeared. > > I went to the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" Setting in gmail.com, > found the "When I mark a message in IMAP as deleted:" setting, > and changed the setting > from "Auto-Expunge on - Immediately update the server. (default)" > to "Auto-Expunge off - Wait for the client to update the server." > > If other people are also having problems with kmail and use imap with > gmail.com, could they also check this setting and change it. > > I would like to know if changing this setting made my problem go away, > or if my problem went away for some other reason. > > I am using kdepim-4.4.11.1-5.fc15.x86_64. > > If this change affects the problem, perhaps kmail is locally caching > information from the gmail.com server, and the information is getting out of > sync, and kmail is trying to use stale information. > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list > kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
