On 6/20/09 5:43 AM, "Timothy Murphy" <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote: > I'm running a dovecot/IMAP server under CentOS-5.3 on my desktop, > reading the mail with KMail on my laptop. > > I have what seems a venerable and well-documented problem/bug; > when I click on "Check Mail" I get an error message > "Error while getting folder information" ... > Actually, this doesn't appear to have the slightest effect > on kmail, which works perfectly if one just presses Continue. > > But I have worked out that the cause of the problem > is that there exists a kind of ghost folder, "uidvalidity", > which is listed among the folders on the kmail page > but does not in fact seem to exist in my maildir on the server. > > Deleting the folder under kmail has no permanent effect; > it simply re-appears when I re-start kmail. > > I assume the folder is listed in some way in the dovecot.index ; > and my question really is: if I delete this index file > will it be re-created automatically? > > This bug/feature seems to have been present for years, > which I suppose is par for KDE. More like par for RH, since they focus on GNOME instead. (Can't wait to see when RHEL/CentOS when they base the KDE in it off the work of the Fedora KDE volunteers... Likely in 6.) > To make it as difficult as possible to diagnose, > the error message on the kmail page is incomplete, > even when expanded to the whole screen. > In particular it does not specify (on the visible part) > what folder is causing the problem. > Nor is the error listed with other dovecot information > in /var/log/messages . > > Any suggestions/advice gratefully received. >