[Kde-pim] Review Request 114996: Close mailbox before renaming it

Christian Mollekopf chrigi_1 at fastmail.fm
Mon Jan 13 19:00:16 GMT 2014


On Monday 13 January 2014 19.05:48 Jan Kundrát wrote:
> On Monday, 13 January 2014 18:47:22 CEST, Christian Mollekopf wrote:
> > So, I agree that ideally we would be using the two-phase delete, but the
> > usecases I'm aware of are few, which is why we didn't fix that
> > yet. If you have
> > a strong case for it, I'm all ears =)
> 
> This is not about what KMail shall or shall not offer, but about what other
> clients do. There is plenty of software which does *not* move to thrash by
> default, or is configurable not to do so. When a user runs KMail in
> parallel to their other client, Akonadi might eat their data.
> 
> The problem is not in how KMail conducts deletion initiated by its own
> user. The problem is how it interoperates with other concurrent IMAP
> sessions.
> 

Right, didn't think of that.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329919

I don't think that I'll get to it anytime soon though.

Cheers,
Christian

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