Anne, the quoting on this got screwed, I'm not the one with the mail issue, since I build my own KDE builds and generally pull patches from the PIM Enterprise branch (I was the konstruct maintainer, so building from source for me isn't scary). I was commenting on the issue that Timothy was having. On 6/23/09 6:45 AM, "Anne Wilson" <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 23 June 2009 14:12:09 Rex Dieter wrote: >> Gary Greene wrote: >>> On 6/20/09 5:43 AM, "Timothy Murphy" >>> >>>> 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. >> >> Years? Bugs filed? If so, where? >> >> Could very well simply be a bug in dovecot and/or incompatibility between >> dovecot/kmail. >> > I've been using kmail+dovecot for around 3 years now and never seen this ghost > folder, so presumably there is some other influence at work. > > Index files do get recreated automatically in kmail - but I thought Gary said > that uidvalidity is listed among kmail folders? Index files are not listed > among folders. > > Gary - what have you done in the way of trying to locate this folder? Have > you looked anywhere other than maildir? 'uidvalidity' sounds to me as though > it might belong to an authentication scheme? > > Anne