[Bug 55838] messages turn into subject "No Subject" and sender "Unknown" after clicked for viewing

[Felix Endres]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55838


Felix Endres 1980er web de changed:

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--- Comment #14 from Felix Endres <1980er web de>  2009-01-23 12:15:55 ---
I can confirm that this is not resolved. I experience it right now on ubuntu
intrepid ibex (8.10).
KDE Version: 4.1.3
KMail Version 1.10.3
Account: Disconnected IMAP
This is also NOT an duplicate of Bug 43931. IMHO someone has mistakenly marked
it so.

Trying to solve the problem by rebuilding the index of the folder (my inbox)
worked, such that the messages were back in the list. I went offline for this,
as I didn't want to affect the mails on the server. 
However, rebuilding the index raised the problem of missing dates for more than
half of the 4000+ messages in the folder. The dates appeared again when
selecting the Messages, but you do not want to do this for 2000 Messages. So I
tried again, this time online. Same problem. Then I chose to fetch e-mail in
the hope it would synchronize the problem away. Suddenly there are only about
1700 mails in the folder anymore. Bad! I check my webmail interface whether
this has affected the server side, but it is worse: only 109 messages left my
inbox. BAD!! Switching back to kmail I see it synchronizing again, resulting in
the 109 messages replacing the 1700. Fuck! Four years of mail archive lost,
even though I thought having a local copy (Disconnected IMAP) and the mails on
the server would protect me from such a loss.
By the way, this is not the first time I lost emails using kmail. It happened
to me some years ago, in a somewhat similar way and I stopped using kmail. But
I was lured by the shiny interface and nice integration into believing this
would not happen again with an up-to-date version.
This is very unfortunate, in particular when considering that 6 year old bugs
like this one are marked as resolved but are not. 

So to sum up: Do not use kmail if you want to keep your mails! If you have to,
make constant backups somewhere offline. I am sorry to say this, as I know that
a lot of work has been done by the developers. But a mail client that loses
your mails is as bad as it gets. 


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