Not sure if this is a Dovecot bug or a KMail bug, but since it only seems to happen to people using KMail to access a Dovecot server or a Novell NetWare IMAP server, I thought I should mention it here.
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121866
From the bug report:
When I check for mail on an IMAP account (not disconnected), all
recently-received messages disappear prior to any mail check, any new
messages appear, and then the messages that disappeared earlier reappear.
This does not seem to cause any harm, but it is horrendously inefficient if
there are a lot of messages in an IMAP folder so affected.
Any ideas as to what could cause this behavior in a mail client when connecting to a Dovecot IMAP server but not when connecting to other kinds of IMAP servers?
-- Lincoln Peters sampln@sbcglobal.net
BOFH excuse #80:
That's a great computer you have there; have you considered how it would work as a BSD machine?
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