Bug 189767

Summary: kmail goes unresponsive when moving many mails from one disconnected imap folder to another one
Product: [Applications] kmail Reporter: Tamás Németh <nt1277>
Component: IMAPAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal CC: bjoern, drankinatty, kollix
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Tamás Németh 2009-04-16 02:01:19 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

I sorted the mails by sender in the INBOX (which contains more than 16000 messages), selected about 50 consecutive mails, and stared to move the to another folder. Kmail wrote "Moving messages..." onto the status field (bottom left corner of the window), but the it started to use the hard drive heavily, get unresponsive (compiz made it gray), and virtually did nothing, not even showing a progress bar. I killed it, and realized, that it was trying to copy ALL the messages (not just the selected ones) from the INBOX to the destination folder, or something like that, at least the local copy of the destination dimap folder contained thousands of mails after killing kmail.
Comment 1 Tamás Németh 2009-04-16 08:46:51 UTC 
I've forgotten to mention that I use Courier IMAP server.
Comment 2 Jaime Torres 2009-04-16 11:59:30 UTC 
Maybe related to bug #185147 (at least for the unresponsiveness).
Comment 3 Tamás Németh 2009-04-16 14:47:15 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Maybe related to bug #185147 (at least for the unresponsiveness).

I don't know, it didn't crash for me, it just worked in vain insanely.
Comment 4 Björn Ruberg 2010-02-22 13:02:33 UTC 
I see this problem too
Comment 5 Björn Ruberg 2010-03-01 00:45:30 UTC 
*** Bug 198026 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Laurent Montel 2015-04-12 10:15:00 UTC 
Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback.