[Kde-pim] Data loss: kmail2 must not use existing [Folder-xy] settings on random new folders

[laurent Montel]

In 4.8/4.7.4 I fixed deleted kmail2rc config when we delete a folder (when kmail 
works).
I don't know how to fix it when kmail doesn't work.
Regards

Le lundi 12 décembre 2011 12:03:01 Sven Burmeister a écrit :
> Hello everyone!
> 
> What just happened to me.
> 
> I removed a kmail-folders resource pointing to ~/Mail and added a maildir-
> resource pointing to ~/Mail.
> 
> I did this via systemsettings i.e. kmail was closed.
> 
> When I restarted kmail and refreshed the folders I suddenly saw that kmail
> had deleted ~6000 mails off my sent folder which was part of that new
> resource.
> 
> I had not set any expiration settings for tha folder, neither when it was
> accessed via the kmail-folders resource nor the maildir resource.
> 
> Having a look at kmail2rc I see that it contains lots of [Folder-xy]
> including expiration settings.
> 
> So my guess and this happens with filters as well, is that kmail just
> assigns a new number to the new folders of the new resource and keeps the
> settings if that number already existed.
> 
> This must never ever happen!
> 
> The easiest that comes to my mind is giving each resource a unique-id and
> using that as part of the folder's settings guaranteeing that settings for
> folder a will never be applied to folder b.
> 
> This is KDE 4.7.2 plus some patches on openSUSE 12.1.
> 
> Sven
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