Am Dienstag 20 Januar 2009 schrieb Wilhelm Meier: > Hi, > > Am Montag 19 Januar 2009 schrieb Timo Sirainen: > > On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 18:32 +0100, Wilhelm Meier wrote: > > > kmail instead seems to have some problems: if I save a mail > > > into the shared-folder, the other users are seeing this new > > > mail almost immediately. But if I delete(!) a mail from the > > > shared-folder, the list of the other kmails remains untouch. > > > Refreshing does nothing. I have to close kmail and restart. > > > > > > Is this related to some sort of wrong config of the shared > > > mailboxes or is this a (known) dovecot <-> kmail problem? > > > > My guess is that kmail assumes it's the only client accessing the > > mailbox and doesn't bother handling IMAP notifications about > > expunged messages. > > If I delete the mail via kmail, the mail gets the "T" flag, but the > mail-file remains there and the other kmail shows the mail > (strange?). If I afterwards open the mailfolder via e.g. > squirrelmail, the mail-file gets deleted, and it vanishes from the > kmail list, if I refresh the view in kmail. > > The difference is, that squirrelmail does a login/logout every time > it looks for mails. kmail stays logged in. > > Is this a bug in kmail not to expunge the mail-file? If I manually > remove the mail-file, kmail is fine!
A "strange" workaround comes into mind, since our shared mail-folders are usually small in message-numbers: setup inotify to delete all "T"-flagged files. Would this be ok with dovecot? Or can I trigger dovecot (sending a signal or so) to do this? -- Wilhelm
