[Kde-pim] [FOUND] Re: Possible data loss: one-byte sized files

[Andras Mantia]

Martin Steigerwald wrote:

> Am Freitag, 3. Mai 2013, 07:56:33 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
>> How the massive mail loss during the mail folder move I tried with my
>> fourth  migration attempt (see bug #319175) happened is still unclear to
>> me, but I have a theory:
>> 
>> I think at that time I set the spam check rule to all acounts, instead of
>> just  the POP3 one, cause I saw it not being applied all the time and
>> found spam mails without X-CRM114 headers.
>> 
>> My theory is now, that during the move between the mixed mail dir
>> resource
>> to  the pure maildir resource, the mail filter agent called this filter
>> rule for *any* mail that has been moved. And after a while the filter
>> just started to produce these one-byte-sized mails massively.
>> 
>> That might also explain the mail mail cannot be moved bug (bug 319238] I
>> experienced recently. My theory here is: The filter is called twice, once
>> when  mail appears in POP3 account and once when it appears in maildir
>> account. And sometimes it just gives clashes then. I will try to
>> reproduce by pressing Ctrl-J quickly in succession on one mail. At least
>> this really seems to be a failed move without any data loss.
> 
> No. At that time I haven´t created or imported any filter rules. It was a
> from scratch KMail 2 configuration without any filter rules added. Thus no
> spam filter rules.
> 
> So that seems to be a different issue.
> 
> Additionally finding: If I let the filter rules only go at incoming mails
> from the POP3 account, lots of mails do not get filtered at all. But so
> far also no cannot move mail errors, thus I keep it that way, select new
> mails and press Ctrl+J on them.
> 

Can you please file a bug for this? I have no time for it now, but will try 
to look at it. Especially if it is filter related.

Andras
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