KMail Woes

[Matthew Carpenter]

I am normally a loyal Sylpheed user by choice.  KMail hadn't supported IMAP
until after I found Sylpheed and it stuck.
Yesterday I decided to use it because I'm writing an automated billing module
which emails HTML-based bills and I needed to see how it was going to look to
clients.  
I kept having troubles with KMAIL and IMAP access to my Inbox (it didn't show
any mail) and after fiddling the end result was that my inbox got wiped out.
I had a folder named "INBOX" which had previously been a softlink to my
mailfile on the server because an early version of Sylpheed on Mandrake didn't
read the mail-file correctly.  Maybe that caused confusion.
This is not good.  I'm already extremely frusterated as my Inbox often serves
as my "ToDo" list.  I figure there's nothing I can do there, but can anyone
shed any light on this one?  The IMAP server is the default IMAP server for
Caldera OpenLinux 3.1.1.

Thanks,
Matt