Bug 102765

Summary:	Mail importer sometimes remove subjects
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Sebastien <slaout>
Component:	kmailcvt	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Sebastien 2005-03-29 17:56:19 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)

When importing my mails from mbox, some mails was having "No Subject" as subject!!

I searched a lot of times but the importer has not succeed to find the subjects.
So I hacked this:
- Create a new MBOX formated folder into KMail
- Create a false mail into this folder
- Quit KMail
- Go to KMail preferences directory and find the mbox file
- Replace it by the real MBOX file to "import"
- After some times I figured out that I should remove the index files in KMail dir
- Restart KMail and wait the index rebuild: now move the mails in the folder I was wanting to (long wait)

Not obvious to find.

Comment 1 Till Adam 2005-03-30 13:47:42 UTC

I assume you are talking about the import tool corrupting index files?

Comment 2 Sebastien 2005-03-30 19:11:43 UTC

So, you say that I should remove the index files and KMail will rebuild them all with the attachement flag when needed?

Comment 3 Till Adam 2005-03-30 19:26:24 UTC

On Wednesday 30 March 2005 19:11, Sebastien wrote:
> So, you say that I should remove the index files and KMail will
> rebuild them all with the attachement flag when needed?


I didn't understand your report, so I was just guessing. But it could indeed 
help.

Comment 4 Danny Kukawka 2005-03-30 21:46:39 UTC

You have a problem with import with kmailcvt? How big is the mbox? From which mail programm is the mbox? Which importfilter you used? Could you attach a little testmbox (maybe split the file)?

Comment 5 Sebastien 2005-03-30 22:10:49 UTC

> From which mail programm is the mbox? Which importfilter you used? Could
> you attach a little testmbox (maybe split the file)?


It was from Evolution.
I used the Evolution filter of kmailcvt.
And then as it wasn't working well I used the mbox converting filter, on a 
single Evolution MBOX file.

Comment 6 Danny Kukawka 2005-03-30 22:14:57 UTC

Which version of Evolution? Could you please send me (to: dkukawka_AT_suse_dot_de) or attach a mbox with this problem?

Comment 7 Sebastien 2005-03-30 22:22:09 UTC

> Which version of Evolution? Could you please send me (to:
> dkukawka_AT_suse_dot_de) or attach a mbox with this problem?


Oh, sorry: Evolution 1.4

And for the mbox example, I removed my evolution folder (needed disk space to 
compile the rest of KDE 3.4) as I finally imported everything right.

Comment 8 Danny Kukawka 2005-03-30 22:35:45 UTC

hm, no backup? Not easy to reproduce without a example file. Did you know which messages this problem had? Could you maybe sent me this mails in a mbox or as maildirfile?

Comment 9 Danny Kukawka 2005-03-30 22:37:29 UTC

How did you import the messages? Was 'remove dublicated messages' selected or not?

Comment 10 Sebastien 2005-03-31 00:00:24 UTC

'Remove dublicated messages' was not selected.

No backup, since this works fine now.

It was mainly the Sent folder: the most recent mails (near to 30% of my Sent 
folder) was not having subject.

Comment 11 Danny Kukawka 2005-04-03 04:00:16 UTC

I can't reproduce this bug. I installed specially SUSE 9.1 to create a Evolution 1.4.6 folder, but there are no messages without subject. 

I close the bug.

Comment 12 Danny Kukawka 2005-04-04 12:15:28 UTC

This was maybe a problem depends on bug #103112 if the first or second line of the mailheader of a message was subjectline. This is fixed in CVS.

Comment 13 Danny Kukawka 2005-04-04 12:16:57 UTC

reopen to Change the Status and Resolution.

Comment 14 Danny Kukawka 2005-04-04 12:17:09 UTC

*** Bug has been marked as fixed ***.