Hans wrote: > Dear list, > > I am a little bit confused about mail behaviour. There are two things, > I do not understand. > > First of all, the following: > > When I was long time online with another computer, reading my mails, > and then switch to another computer back, then I rsync the Mailfolder > to the other computer (so that all mails are on the computer, I used > not the long time). > > But then, this computer indexes the Mailfolder again (what is ok) and > then the weired thing starts: It downloads all mails again from the > mailserver, even I deleted them on this mailserver! This are also > mails, which are some years old. Where do these mails come from??? By > accessing the mailserver via webinterface, it shows - NO MAILS! > Strange thing. Can somebody technical explain this weired behaviour?
How are these computers connecting to the mailserver? If it's IMAP, the client and server will resync when the client connects ... so if your oldPC last sync'd a month ago, it'll take it a while to validate what it's supposed to do with the (now deleted) messages that it still sees as 'new' since the last time you sync'd. Note that some mail clients don't always play nice with the IMAP updates (I'm lookin' at you K9 Mail), so they leave messages "unread" even though they've been read on another device. If it's POP ... there could be other things going on, since it's pretty much designed to only pull new messages. > > > The second thing is: I have local system mails, which are sent to my user > account on my computer. These are read with kmail2, and after I read, I > deleted them. However, when I call mutt, these mails are still there. > How must I configure kmail2, so that the mails are deleted in mutt, > too, when I delte them in kmail2? There are four settings in the > configuration: none, mutt-dotlock, procmail-lock and > mutt-lock-with-rights (hopefully correct translated, my kmail2 is in > German). > Sounds like kmail may not be configured to tell the server to delete the mails when you've deleted them from within the program (or, it only sends the purge command on user request). This means you delete them from the kmail view, but when mutt queries the server, they're still there. -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
