OK, after quitting/restarting kmail a couple of times - could it be true???? Did you find the magic key? Seems to be working - but I'd better test for a couple of days - I've been fooled this way before. Neal Becker wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org