Re: IMAP shared mailboxes: issues with kmail?

On Monday 19 January 2009, Wilhelm Meier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> are there any known issues with symlinked-shared-mailboxes and kmail?
>
> I use dovecot with virtual users (LDAP), so there are no
> unix-permissions related
> problems here: all mailboxes are owned by the local user vmail.
>
> Each user maildir has some symlinks to shared mailboxes. This works
> fine if I use squirrelmail as a MUA.
>
> 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?

KMail does not watch its folder storage for changes. So it is by design 
(we wanted to keep it simple) that a running KMail does not notice all 
changes done by other processes.


Regards,
Ingo

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