Bug 184079

Summary: own user/usergroup for mail files in kmail
Product: [Applications] kmail Reporter: Eirik Johansen Bjørgan <eirikjbj>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Eirik Johansen Bjørgan 2009-02-11 23:59:53 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Some days ago I managed to delete all my email, the files in kde4 apps folder.
So I want to propose a suggestion that mail-files has it own user, so the mail-files cannot be deleted my accident.
What do you guys think?
Comment 1 Jaime Torres 2009-02-12 11:45:03 UTC 
I see some problems with your approach, for example:

* kmail must change the effective user id to be allowed to read/write the mails. But also must have the real user id to open kaddressbook, akonadi resources, ....

Therefore, kmail will be more complex (and more bugs to come :-().

I propose you a much simpler solution:
move kmail directory somewhere else (into a safe directory) and make a symbolic link to the default place.