[Bug 122028] Corrupt index files after crash, all messages blank

[Martin Steigerwald]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122028


Martin Steigerwald <Martin at Lichtvoll.de> changed:

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--- Comment #11 from Martin Steigerwald <Martin Lichtvoll de>  2009-08-01 22:07:51 ---
Hmmm, I didn't have crashes and index file data losses at all with KMail from
KDE 4 yet. I once thought I had a problem with an index as I couldn't find a
mail, but I just didn't account for the threaded view and it was there. What is
a pity IMHO is that rebuilding the index discarded the flags. Actually I
thought they were stored in the names of the mail files in MailDir format, but
apparently this at least doesn't hold true for all flags or KMail doesn't
account for those flags when rebuilding the index, which wouldn't make much
sense for me. So I agree that index handling seems still be to fragile to me.

Anyway, I guess, we will have to wait for Akonadi. Does anyone know when it is
planned to switch KMail to Akonadi storage? Maybe for KDE 4.4? Anyway even then
Akonadi might have bugs that will have to be fixed, before it all becomes
stable.

As far as I read there are not many KMail developers, so this is as with any
other open-source project: Either fix it yourself, sponsor fixing it by
throwing money at a capable KDE developer like Thomas McGuire or a team of them
or just wait till its done. Of course sponsoring would only work when the
developer(s) in question can take off their regular jobs for a while or when
they work at a company which does paid development work on KDE.

That written I think adding moaning over moaning to each bug report that has
been open longer, doesn't really help to get it fixed. As much as I understand
that the situation is frustrating.

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