[Evolution] Problems with mail notification

[Des Dougan <des DouganConsulting com>]

A couple of months ago, I reported that I was having problems with
Evolution (1.4.5, on RH 9, KDE 3.1) in that it was not showing new mail
in my IMAP folders. My server runs UW IMAP (Maildir) and Qmail, and I am
using Procmail to filter messages into folders as they arrive on the
server.

All the feedback I received seemed to point the problem to an issue at
my end, probably with my account (although Mozilla Mail doesn't seem to
have the problem).

This past weekend, I bit the bullet and rebuilt my server account. I
copied all my IMAP and data folders away, blew away my account and
re-created it. I created a couple of Procmail rules (as blowing the
account away had cleaned those up), and all seemed well - messages were
arriving and I was being notified (although the "Apply filters to new
messages in INBOX" setting seemed to stop new messages in the Inbox from
being flagged until I set it off and then on again - so perhaps all was
not as well as I thought...).

I decided to migrate my mail back from where I'd copied it to, a folder
at a time. I did this last night, and when I got home from work today,
the situation is back to where it was a couple of months ago - new mail
is simply not being shown as having arrived, and in fact, I seem to have
to select a folder, move to another folder, and then move back to the
first folder before it will show new mail in it.

I'm very frustrated by all of this - I like Evo, and very much want to
use the calendar and to do features, but it's getting to the point where
I am totally confused as to what is going on here, and why. Jeffrey
Stedfast looked at a trace the first time I had this issue, and could
not see anything wrong from the Evo side, so I'm wondering, does anyone
else on the list use UW IMAP and Procmail (in my case, on the Mitel SME
Server, which is a Red Hat 7.2 derivative)?

I currently have 44 folders, and 20-odd Procmail rules. I have Evo set
to check new mail every 2 minutes, have "Check for new messages in all
folders" set on, and currently have the "Apply filters..." not set. I 
tested my setup last week with a different account on the same server,
with a couple of Procmail rules, using a bulk mail shell script to
inject messages into the process, and it seemed to be working fine,
which is another reason I thought my account may have been the issue.

Is it possible that there is a limitation on the number of folders one
can have?

I would very much appreciate any assistance.

Thanks,


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Des Dougan