Bug 77904

Summary:	change of folder names for sent & draft when choose to modify an existing identity - Does NOT happen
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	hal <bugs-at-kmail>
Component:	folder list	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	lemma
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	triaged
Version:	SVN trunk (KDE 4)
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandrake RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	kdepim 4.6

Description hal 2004-03-18 11:30:31 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.4KDE 1.2)
Installed from:    Mandrake RPMsMandrake RPMs

If you change the folder name of the sent folder, it doesn't recognise the sent folder or drafts folder anymore.
With kmail, it is not so clever to:
update/change the folder names for sent & draft folders, when a user changes the name.
like it is when you choose properties, of a right click of a mail folder, and move it to a different parent directory.
The way I found this out was to go to manage identities - in Configure kmail, from settings in the task bar, and choose to modify an existing identity, with folders that I'd changed.
Kmail wont tell you something is wrong or be intelligent enough to guess correctly.

Comment 1 Tom Albers 2004-09-07 16:40:06 UTC

Confirmed with the development version of kmail. Although it gives a warning the target does not exist anymore when entering the properties of the identity.

Comment 2 Michael Leupold 2008-11-09 23:17:49 UTC

This is still reproducible on trunk r881868.

Reproducing it step-by-step:
1. Create a new local folder, name it "testdrafts"
2. Make "testdrafts" the drafts folder for one of your identities
3. Right-click on "testdrafts", choose properties and rename it to "testdrafts2"
=> On editing the identity used in 2., kmail can't find the drafts folder any longer and resets it to the default "drafts" one.

Further information:
1. Even if the default "drafts" folder is no longer set to receive drafts for any identity, it's properties menu still doesn't allow to set the name (not even after restarting kmail)
2. The opposite for additional drafts folders. they can always be renamed.

Comment 3 Christophe Marin 2011-05-01 15:28:31 UTC

Cannot reproduce in KMail2 with the steps in comment #2. When reopening the identity settings, the draft folder is correctly set to testdraft2.