[dot] Two Critical Bugs in KMail 1.6 Detected

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1075969434/

From: Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org>
Dept: slipped-buggers
Date: Thursday 05/Feb/2004, @09:23

Two Critical Bugs in KMail 1.6 Detected
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   Two critical bugs crept into the just released version of KMail
[http://kmail.kde.org/]. One is related to POP filters
[http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71866] and the other to spam
filtering - both cause mail loss! They are fixed in CVS and patches are
linked on the KDE 3.2 Info Page [http://www.kde.org/info/3.2.php]. The
distributors have been asked to update their binary packages.

     If you are using POP filters with KMail then, after upgrading to
KDE 3.2, you have to reconfigure your POP filters because otherwise
messages which are supposed to be downloaded later will be deleted from
the POP server. Also due to this bug you must not use KMail 1.6 (from
KDE 3.2) and an older version of KMail in parallel because both versions
will behave differently (one version might download your messages from
the server while the other version might delete your messages from the
server).

     If you filter email in an IMAP folder trough spamc the message may
lose its UID and consequently a delete job is sent to the kio_imap slave
without a UID. The slave unfortunately interprets that as "expunge
folder".