[Bug 169166] KMail loses email accounts and their settings at KDE logout

[Nico Kruber]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169166





--- Comment #5 from Nico Kruber <Nico Laus 2001 gmx de>  2008-12-19 10:19:05 ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> I still haven't figure what is causing it

I did some testing and you can simulate the behaviour with the following:

- start kontact (actually the bug does not appear with KMail! (i just found
out))
- open "configure KMail"
- change something in your mail account settings for receiving mails (doesn't
have to be the password), e.g. "include in manual mail check"
- click ok and ok again (closes configurations dialog)
- close the kwallet
- close KMail - it will ask for your KWallet password - don't enter it, hit
"cancel"
- kill KMail when it asks you whether to store passwords
-> the result will be the broken config file ~/.kde4/share/config/kmailrc.

So far account data hasn't been lost (~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/) but when KMail
is started again, it will delete all data it doesn't find accounts for.

> its a real pita to put back in all the accounts one at a time in kmail. 
> Pasting the accounts back into the kmailrc file does not work.

If you have a copy of your old configs (~/.kde4/share/config/kmailrc*),
replacing it should work. Also restore a backup of the application's data
directory (~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/) and everything should be as it was.

This Bug is still in KDE 4.1.3!!
(I'll test whether this is also the case for KDE 4.2 beta2...)


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