[kdepim-users] kmail2 apparently losing mail while migrating to local imap

Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 21:58:36 BST 2011


On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:37:17 +0300
Andras Mantia <amantia at kde.org> wrote:

> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:41:34 +0300
> > Andras Mantia <amantia at kde.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> >> Dragging items to the IMAP folder makes them appear in kmail's
> >> >> display in the correct place and they can be read. However, the
> >> >> originals are no longer in ~/.local/share/local-mail and do not
> >> >> appear in ~/.maildir either. They seem to have been deleted off
> >> >> disk.
> >> 
> >> Unfortunately so far we couldn't reproduce the issue. We really
> >> tried it at the last PIM meeting and I will give a try once more
> >> as soon as I have time.
> > 
> > It's probably not worth trying to replicate actually.
> 
> No, you were right and I could finally reproduce and with Volker's
> help add a fix in 4.7.2 and 4.8.
> I hope this fixes the mail loss on copy/move for you and others as
> well.

Thanks for putting in the time and effort, many users will benefit.
It's always pleasing to see devs track down a tricky bug and squash
it :-)

-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon at gmail.com
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