Bug 128454

Summary:	if copies of sent messages cannot be uploaded to the IMAP server they should be moved there from the local folder later
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Hauke Laging <hauke>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	REOPENED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bjoern, gassauer, hpj, luigi.toscano, n-roeser
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Hauke Laging 2006-06-01 18:49:21 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Sometimes uploading a copy of the message just sent fails and the copy is put into the local "sent" folder. I think it would be useful to automatically move these messages once the connection to the IMAP server could be established again. One reason is that I sometimes look for messages and don't find them there. I do not always think of searching locally, too. The other reason is that the messages on the IMAP server are safe from local hardware or software disasters... I move them manually from time to time now. I guess KMail would have to write an additional header (which might be removed when uploading later) whichs stores the information to which sender identity the mail belongs (so that the according server can be looked up).

Comment 1 Björn Ruberg 2010-03-11 23:34:37 UTC

*** Bug 220776 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:43:38 UTC

Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.

Comment 3 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-19 00:34:02 UTC

Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.

Comment 4 Hauke Laging 2012-08-19 02:17:56 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the
> wishlist is still valid for kmail2.

Still valid.

Comment 5 Hans-Peter Jansen 2017-05-22 09:00:31 UTC

I'm admin of a couple of kmail users, which ALL suffer from this problem on a regular base.

Forcing the user to move the content of the local sent folder to the right IMAP sent folders manually in order to reach a consistent state is more than a nuisance. From my POV, this is a plain bug and I would like to raise the Importance of this long standing issue accordingly. 

Sure, it might happen, that the IMAP server cannot be accessed, while the mail was sent. Given the number of times this happens, this is most probably, because akonadi is already active on this server.

kmail2/akonadi should always add a custom header, when it stores mails in local sent folder temporarily. The header value should point to the correct destination of this mail. Akonadi should retry to move the mail, until it's done (or the mailbox vanished, than it's okay to remove the header, and give up).