Bug 114337

Summary:	kmail keeps filling my harddisk with unused remains of mails
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Mathias Homann <Mathias.Homann>
Component:	index	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jtamate, lemma
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	triaged
Version:	1.8.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Mathias Homann 2005-10-13 15:09:32 UTC

Version:           1.8.2 (using KDE 3.4.2 Level "b" , SUSE 9.2 UNSUPPORTED)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5 20040809)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.8-24.18-default

kmail is slowly filling up my harddisk with remains of mails.

examples:

~/Mail/sent-mail/cur fills up with remains of the mails i've sent over time

~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/imap keeps filling up with files like this:
3560    ./imap/.1199664090.directory/Trash
4428    ./imap/.1199664090.directory/INBOX

which, after looking into the files, seem to be lists of header lines from mails that have been in the respective folders once (may i ask, why keep such info for a TRASH folder, over a year after the mail in question has been deleted from the imap server???)

can I safely delete such files, without losing folder configuration stuff like mailinglist setup and such?

wouldn't the difference between imap and disconnected imap be that with "regular" imap, nothing (or almost nothing) is stored locally?

Comment 1 Carsten Burghardt 2006-01-01 12:51:48 UTC

AFAIK that should be fixed in 3.5, please give this a try.

Comment 2 Mathias Homann 2006-01-01 15:10:21 UTC

partially fixed.

~/Mail/sent-mail/ is nice and clean now, but ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/imap still is cluttered with header lines from mails that dont exist anymore, especially for "Trash" folders. I think those could safely be deleted on "Empty Trash".

Comment 3 Jaime Torres 2008-09-18 13:11:20 UTC

In kmail 1.10.1 (kde 4.1.66), all the mail folders does not have files for no longer existing mails.

Comment 4 Michael Leupold 2009-04-04 19:56:00 UTC

I can't reproduce this on KMail 1.11.0 either. I don't see excess files in imap directories.