No, my problem is not fixed. Like so many times before, it seems to work for a while. But then I click on one of my mail groups and it just sits saying it's updating (or something like that) forever. Neal Becker wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org