Bug 106125

Summary:	out-of-diskspace results in crash + apparent mail loss
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.8
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2005-05-22 18:00:36 UTC

Version:           1.8 (using KDE KDE 3.4.1)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          gcc 3.4.4 3.4.4-1ark from Ark Linux -- includes Visibility patch
OS:                Linux

My harddisk just ran out of space while kmail was running (note to self: don't compile OpenOffice.org on a notebook ;) ).
KMail popped up a window saying "KMail encountered a fatal error and will terminate now", closed itself, and at the next startup, my inbox (w/ 4000+ messages) was empty.

Deleting ~/Mail/.inbox.index* solved this, but this is hardly obvious to ppl who just converted from Windoze...

I guess emergencyExit() should automatically delete the ~/Mail/.*.index* files unless the error invoking it is known not to cause potential index file corruption -- the increased startup time after a crash is greatly preferrable over ppl assuming they just lost all their mail.

Comment 1 Jonathan Marten 2006-11-24 22:21:01 UTC

Another one of the "most hated" bugs...


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 50462 ***