Kmail "saves" drafts in trash

[Ianseeks]

On Wednesday, 28 March 2018 13:43:12 BST Martin (KDE) wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 28. März 2018, 09:32:21 CEST schrieb Ianseeks:
> > On Wednesday, 28 March 2018 01:10:38 BST Tim Folger wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm using an up-to-date Debian testing with kontact version 5.6.3. I've
> > > just noticed a weird little glitch. When I create a new message in kmail
> > > and then select "Save as Draft" from the Message menu, the email is sent
> > > to the trash folder instead of the drafts folder. Has anyone else
> > > experienced this? Any clues about how to correct this? It happens every
> > > time I try to save a message as a draft.
> > 
> > I've had that happen after i've deleted the akonadi folders and allowed it
> > to regenerate, it seems to forget the settings for a few of the default
> > folders. But once reset to the correct ones, its fine.
> 
> Most likely this has nothing to do with forget but with a design problem: 
> kmail stores some configurations to folders simply identified by numbers 
> (afaik). As long as akonadi database and kmail matches, this is no problem, 
> but if you remove akonadi database the folders are renumbered differently so 
> kmail folder konfig no longer matches the akonadi folders. So sent and trash 
> folder may get mixed up.
> 
> In the early days of akonadi even expiration was configured this way - an I 
> had massive mail loss after deletion of akonadi database (expired simply the 
> wrong folder). I think this is fixed now (I hope - at least I no longer see 
> expiration in kmailrc file).
> 
> But still I think this is a design weakness which should be addressed and 
> fixed.

Thanks for the explanation.  I was quite surprised the first time I removed the akonadi folder when a lot of the account settings disappeared, i assumed the config was safe. I think i also had it one time when i created a new user but i can't be sure about that as it was a long time ago.

> regards
> Martin
> 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Tim
> 
> 
> 
> 


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