Version: (using KDE 3.5.8) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages Compiler: does not matter OS: Linux KMail has a cool feature storing emails which are currently composed into a file so that once KMail crashes and is being re-started, the unfinished emails appear again. This feature, however, has a bug: Directly after re-start the file containing the unfinished emails is read, emails are displayed as composer windows, and then the file is deleted. It will be re-written after some minutes. If KMail crashes during that time, the emails will be lost! How to reproduce: Write an email, wait some minutes, kill KMail. Re-start kmail, see the composer re-appear and immediately kill kmail again. Re-start and you'll see your email has disappeared. Solution: Upon startup, do not delete the file containing the currently composed emails - or immediately re-write the file. This is ANNOYING since I'm currently suffering a KMail-crashes-on-copy-and- paste-bug which I will report separately once I have enough details for you guys to be able to reproduce it. So, PLEASE: Fix this; it's probably just a one-liner! (And I've already lost several emails due to this bug.)
See also bug 147947 and bug 98116.
BTW, my version is KMail-1.9.7 from KDE-3.5.8.
Fortunatly this bug has been fixed on KDE 4 (just tested on current trunk r947715. This doesn't means that bug 147947 can be closed. It is a different issue.
Works fine here too with kmail 1.11.90 from trunk. I'm closing this bug.