dovecot - Jan 2009 - Shared Mailboxes (symlink) and kmail: known issues?

Hi,

are there any known issues with symlinked-shared-mailboxes and kmail?

I use 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?

-- 
Wilhelm

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.

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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!

-- 
Wilhelm