Hi there, I just had a very unpleasant experience with kmail. I searched the Debian BTS, and this seems to be the closest report, so my report over here.
I opened kmail this morning, and all my mails were gone. Checked the ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail folder, and basically empty, rather than the 700 MB of mail files I normally have there. Fortunately I had made a backup from a few days ago, so I restored that. Started kmail up again, and it deleted all those mails again during startup. WTH? Well, there are some unsual things on my side that are contributing towards this. 1. My ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail folder is really a symlink to a secondary encrypted location (an encfs directory). 2. I sometimes forget to mount that encfs share before starting kmail. Normally in this case, kmail annoyingly removes my symlinks, and makes new folders, so I have to go and tidy up after it to get to my mail again. Really annoying. 3. My kmail settings files over here, aren't symlinks into an encrypted location: ~/.kde/share/config/kmail* So basically in this case, I started kmail up (before mounting my crypt area), and it did it's normal annoying thing with my ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail symlink. So I did my normal routine of mounting my crypt area, moving the new 'kmail' directory out of the way, restoring my symlink, and then starting kmail. After which, kmail promptly proceeded to delete all my mails under ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail (in my crypt area). And it did the same again, when I restored ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail from my encrypted offsite backup drive What I _think_ is happening here is this: 1. kmail starts up, and sees that ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail looks weird, so it removes it and makes a new folder (WTH number 1, but I'm used to that by now). 2. It then proceeds to make a new set of profile settings under ~/.kde/share/config/kmail*, replacing my old settings (WTH number 2 - now I'd need to manually re-create those settings, or restore from backups) 3. Later, when I replace the new ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail with a symlink to my encfs directory, and then start up kmail again, it sees that my new ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail directory contents are now inconsistent with the "~/.kde/share/config/kmail*" settings files, and then kindly proceeds to tidy things up, to match the config files - deleting my 700 MB of mails, not just once (initially), but a second time too, when I tried to restore from backups and test it again. This is the biggest WTH. Kmail should never delete all the local mail files like that automatically, in an attempt to tidy things up to match the settings, without even warning the user. Granted, I have a really unusual setup, but it's conceivable that kmail's "fix up the user's mail directory at any costs" (parts 1-3) logic are going to cause some major problems for other people at some point. Also, it would be nice if kmail didn't always delete my kmail folder symlink at startup, if they (at that time) point to non-existent directories. Please instead give a warning dialogue, and ask the user what to do at that point. Kind regards, David. PS: Also for your reference, my reportbug headers can be found below: ------- Subject: kmail: Kmail deleted all my local mail Package: kmail Version: 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-1 Severity: important -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages kmail depends on: ii kdebase-runtime 4:4.6.5-1 ii kdepim-runtime 4:4.4.11.1-2 ii kdepimlibs-kio-plugins 4:4.6.5-1 ii libakonadi-contact4 4:4.6.5-1 ii libakonadi-kde4 4:4.6.5-1 ii libc6 2.13-20 ii libgcc1 1:4.6.1-10 ii libgpgme++2 4:4.6.5-1 ii libkabc4 4:4.6.5-1 ii libkcal4 4:4.6.5-1 ii libkcmutils4 4:4.6.5-2 ii libkde3support4 4:4.6.5-2 ii libkdecore5 4:4.6.5-2 ii libkdepim4 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-1 ii libkdeui5 4:4.6.5-2 ii libkhtml5 4:4.6.5-2 ii libkimap4 4:4.6.5-1 ii libkio5 4:4.6.5-2 ii libkldap4 4:4.6.5-1 ii libkleo4 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-1 ii libkmime4 4:4.6.5-1 ii libknotifyconfig4 4:4.6.5-2 ii libkontactinterface4 4:4.6.5-1 ii libkparts4 4:4.6.5-2 ii libkpgp4 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-1 ii libkpimidentities4 4:4.6.5-1 ii libkpimtextedit4 4:4.6.5-1 ii libkpimutils4 4:4.6.5-1 ii libkresources4 4:4.6.5-1 ii libksieve4 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-1 ii libktnef4 4:4.6.5-1 ii libmailtransport4 4:4.6.5-1 ii libmessagecore4 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-1 ii libmessagelist4 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-1 ii libmimelib4 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-1 ii libnepomuk4 4:4.6.5-2 ii libphonon4 4:4.6.0really4.5.0-5 ii libqt4-dbus 4:4.7.3-8 ii libqt4-network 4:4.7.3-8 ii libqt4-qt3support 4:4.7.3-8 ii libqt4-xml 4:4.7.3-8 ii libqtcore4 4:4.7.3-8 ii libqtgui4 4:4.7.3-8 ii libstdc++6 4.6.1-10 ii libthreadweaver4 4:4.6.5-2 ii perl 5.12.4-4 ii phonon 4:4.6.0really4.5.0-5 Versions of packages kmail recommends: ii gnupg-agent 2.0.18-1 ii gnupg2 2.0.18-1 ii pinentry-gtk2 [pinentry-x11] 0.8.1-1 Versions of packages kmail suggests: pn clamav | f-prot-installer <none> pn kaddressbook 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-1 pn kleopatra 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-1 pn procmail <none> pn spamassassin | bogofilter | annoyance-filter | spambayes <none> -- no debconf information ------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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