Bug 124148 - failure to move sent mail into IMAP folder may lead to loss of e-mail
Summary: failure to move sent mail into IMAP folder may lead to loss of e-mail
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: kmail
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 1.7.2
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2006-03-23 17:59 UTC by Wolfgang Jeltsch
Modified: 2007-11-20 20:02 UTC (History)
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Description Wolfgang Jeltsch 2006-03-23 17:59:19 UTC 
Version:           1.7.2 (using KDE 3.3.2,  (3.1))
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.8-2-386

Hello,

I have my folder for sent mail on an IMAP server.  If I sent an e-mail, it may happen that moving the mail into the sent-mail folder fails, for example, because of network problems.  In this case I loose my e-mail since it is not in the outbox folder anymore but also hasn't arrived in the sent-mail folder.

Best wishes,
Wolfgang
Comment 1 Carsten Burghardt 2006-04-04 21:38:19 UTC 
It is normally copied into the local sent-folder and then moved from there. Is 
the email in the local folder?
Comment 2 Wolfgang Jeltsch 2006-04-04 22:59:00 UTC 
It seems like the mails which couldn't be moved to the IMAP sent-mail folder are all in the local sent-mail folder.  I discovered this meanwhile.  So I will close this bug.  The only thing I wonder about is whether this behavior of sent mail first going to the local sent-mail folder and from there to the IMAP sent-mail folder is documented somewhere.
Comment 3 Daniel Aleksandersen 2007-11-20 20:02:40 UTC 
I have a very similar problem. When the moving fails the messages are left in the local sent folder. HOWEVER the messages are not preserved. ‘No subject’ and ‘Unknown’ receeiver is all that is left of the messages.

So, the data is lost. Just in anohter way than the original reported said.