[Bug 187905] New: all receiving accounts are missing after a crash of my system

[He at immanuel.kde.org]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187905

           Summary: all receiving accounts are missing after a crash of my
                    system
           Product: kmail
           Version: 1.11.1
          Platform: Debian testing
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: sigmastudio at gmail.com


Version:           1.11.1 (using KDE 4.2.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

The bug might be related to interaction between kmail and kwallet (I HATE
kwallet because the security it offers never exceeds the problem it causes).

First I want to clarify this: my debian (testing + experimental) suffers an
accidental crash due to the unstable wifi driver for my wireless card. I am
pretty sure about this, since it never happens when I am using the cable
network. Neither madwifi nor ath5k driver will work with crash. So I have to
tolerate it. The crash happens when I am using the network.

Now I talk about the bug. Today my OS crashed just when I was sending an email
and checking all email accounts. After rebooting, I can still send emails but I
can't check my emails. So I checked the configuration of kmail. Well, I found
all my receiving accounts gone! Luckily my sending accounts are still there.
Then in desperation, I checked the directory ~/.kde4/apps/kmail/, where I find
several ``configuration files'' are still there, but encrypted I guess, e.g.
sigmastudio at gmail.com:pop.gmail.com:995.

I don't know how I can decrypt these configuration files or inform my kmail
program about their existence. I remember kwallet caused a similar problem a
long time ago. That is: if I do not enter the password when I quit
kmail/kontact without opening kwallet (the weird thing is I don't understand
why kwallet asks for password then), kmail will lose all the passwords for my
accounts when I restart it (the account exists but kmail asks for password for
each account). I have to add them manually one by one afterwards.

So I think this ``bug'' can be reproduced in the following way,
set up a few receiving accounts (so it takes a while when you check), check
them and shut down your computer intensionally. Then you will lose these
receiving accounts.

I think it might be caused by kwallet. The kmail must ask kwallet for
configurations and the kwallet should always keep the configurations intact
even when it is providing them to kmail. In this way, unforeseeable crashes
will not disturb their interaction afterwards. But I am not very clear about
what kwallet does :-(

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