[Kroupware] Fwd: [Bug 57826] New: All folders are deleted on IMAP server

[Stephan Buys]

Hi Ingo and Paul,

Please note the following on the kolab-kde-client-howto webpage (http://www.kroupware.org/howto-kolab-kde-client.html)

Warning: Remove all of your "traditional" IMAP accounts before trying KMail/Kroupware or use a new $KDEHOME or even better: user. KMail/kroupware will mangle your traditional IMAP folders!

It is definitely _not_ recommended to mingle the old and the new clients, date loss/corruption is a known fact. Perhaps some extra warnings/detection code is required.

Regards,
Stephan


On Friday 02 May 2003 22:12, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> this is a pretty serious bug. It's not uncommon that people use
> different versions of KMail on different machines.
>
> Regards,
> Ingo
>
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> Subject: [Bug 57826] New: All folders are deleted on IMAP server
> Date: Monday 28 April 2003 23:46
> From: Paul Mitchell <paul at yatsura.co.uk>
> To: kmail at kde.org
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> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57826
>            Summary: All folders are deleted on IMAP server
>            Product: kmail
>            Version: unspecified
>           Platform: Compiled Sources
>         OS/Version: Linux
>             Status: UNCONFIRMED
>           Severity: normal
>           Priority: NOR
>          Component: general
>         AssignedTo: kmail at kde.org
>         ReportedBy: paul at yatsura.co.uk
>
>
> Version:           kroupware-RC2 (using KDE Devel)
> Installed from:    Compiled sources
> Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)
> OS:          Linux
>
> IMAP server Cyrus 2.0.16
>
> When looking at kmail (kroupware-rc2) for IMAP sieve support, I built
>  KMail from CVS, but keep the orginal KMail from 3.1.1 around, just in
>  case.
>
> Everything seemed OK, although it did seem to take a long time syncing
>  the folders.
>
> I closed kmail this morning, but opened the old version this morning.
>  I was minus my IMAP connection, I quickly realised that to was the
>  wrong version.  So closed down the old version and open the new
>  version.  After being prompted for the password, I noticed a kio style
>  progress dialog appear, informing me that it was deleting files.  Not
>  thinking it was doing anything on the IMAP server, it was only the
>  second time I open it, I let it go on. It then reported that it could
>  not delete the INBOX on the mail server, then crashed.  Re-opened the
>  new kmail and found that IMAP account had been removed.  Recreated the
>  account and discovered that they where no folders in my INBOX.
>
> I logged in to the cyrus server and found that indeed my account was
>  wiped clean, except for a folder that contained sub-folders, the email
>  messages in there where intact.
>
> I've tried it a couple of times and it seems to happen everytime I open
>  the old kmail, I'll created a test account to see if I can provide any
>  more information, although I understand that it's not recommend to run
>  two different version of kmail.  However, these consequences are a
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