Package: kmail
Version: 4:3.4.2-2
Severity: normal
Hi KDE-maintainers,
I've posted a grave bug against kmail a few weeks ago and now I've found
another one, which is similar but not quite the same. Again it's
dangerous-dimap and it's pretty easy to lose your mails when you move
folders.
I try to reconstruct it the best I can, maybe you create a dimap account
yourself with a few folders and fill them with some spam mails in order
to see the effect.
NOTE: I'm translating the german menu-entrys into english so maybe they
are not 100% correct, I hope you still get the idea.
Assume we have two folders A and B filled with a few mails
(1) Rightclick a folder A and choose "move to".
(2) Now chose folder B where folder A should be moved to.
(3) Now you should see something like this:
B (filled with mails)
`-A (filled with mails)
The first problem: A is *not* moved into a at this stage -- allthough the
user thinks so, because he sees it. For the users point of view
everything seemed to work well. But:
(4) Now click "Send & Receive"... A stupid panel pops up, asking what
kind of data is stored into this (which?!) folder: folders or messages.
Here are two problems:
(a) The user has absolutely no idea whats going on here, since
he thinks his folder has allready been succesfully moved.
(b) Under bad circumstances (happend to my today) you make more
than one move operation or even create a new subfolder and
then move some folder in the new created one -- now two of
those panels pop up -- one for the newly created subfolder
and one for the moved one. The problem is, that you cannot
see which one kmail means, because its not shown to which
folder the question is referring. If you choose "messages"
instead of "folders" for the first subdir all your mails in
this subdir are lost, but kmail still shows them! AGAIN:
kmail shows your mails are still there, but they are gone
because of the wrong decision.
(5) Now comes the funniest part. You've clicked "Send Receive" and think
all changes have been commited, but wrong -- you have to *restart* kmail
in order that the new mails are uploaded to the new folders. This is the
second time in one operation where kmails pretends to have done some
work but actually has not. Let's assume you forget to restart kmail and
just close it. After a while you start kmail on a different machine
(maybe laptop) but you are accessing the same dimap-account -- guess
what happens to your not-yet-uploaded mails...
I hope you where able to follow my steps please don't hesitate to ask if
I was unclear in certain points -- I know my english is not the best,
exspecially when I've lost some mails this day :)
Kind regards
Bastian
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
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APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages kmail depends on:
ii kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.4.2-3 core I/O slaves for KDE
ii kdelibs4c2 4:3.4.2-4 core libraries for all KDE applica
ii kdepim-kio-plugins 4:3.4.2-2 KDE pim I/O Slaves
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libaudio2 1.7-3 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-2 GCC support library
ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.5.18-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkcal2b 4:3.4.2-2 KDE calendaring library
ii libkdepim1a 4:3.4.2-2 KDE PIM library
ii libkleopatra0a 4:3.4.2-2 KDE GnuPG interface libraries
ii libkmime2 4:3.4.2-2 KDE MIME interface library
ii libkpimidentities1 4:3.4.2-2 KDE PIM user identity information
ii libksieve0 4:3.4.2-2 KDE mail/news message filtering li
ii libmimelib1c2 4:3.4.2-2 KDE mime library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.5-1 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxinerama1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-8 X Window System multi-head display
ii libxrandr2 6.8.2.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0-2 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-8 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii perl 5.8.7-5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-4 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages kmail recommends:
ii kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.4.2-3 core I/O slaves for KDE
ii kdepim-kio-plugins 4:3.4.2-2 KDE pim I/O Slaves
ii procmail 3.22-11 Versatile e-mail processor
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