kmail + imap problem

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 15:45 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I keep my email on my server,
> and read it using dovecot/imap on my laptop .
> 
> I've been having a problem which seems to be getting worse lately,
> where I cannot see a few recent email messages -
> the message is listed, but when I click on it the page is blank.
> 
> I've also found kmail crashing more often than it used to do.
> [I'm running Fedora-8, with the latest updated versions 
> of all applications.]
> 
> I wonder if anyone else has been meeting this problem?
> It's rather spasmodic, in my case -
> the email may well re-appear when I next run kmail .
> 
> I'm not sure if one can delete dovecot or kmail index files
> without bad consequences?
> 
> Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.
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does 'File' => 'Refresh local cache'
help?

If not, I'm sure that if you quit kmail and delete the indexes, that
they will be rebuilt which should solve the problem but it really
shouldn't happen.

Craig