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

[Stephan Buys]

Hi all,

As lady luck will have it this bug just struck me as well.
It seems that the server storage is not treated as "authorative". I will do some
digging this weekend but surely the user should be warned/prompted about this
situation?

Also, just because some error situation has occurred should not cause the 
client to think of its copy as authorative and start deleting mails from server?

Luckily I had backups, so no harm done :-)

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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