Bug 213044

Summary:	Loss of all rules and settings after system reset, "kill X" or kde-crash
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Florian <qeldroma>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	bjoern, malkavian666
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Florian 2009-11-04 09:33:06 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources

I think this is related to the bugs 192661 and 192778

After a logout, my kde lost it's settings, i got default-settings. Implied with this, kmail lost ALL settings, including rules, smtp, imap and pop3-accounts and identities!

I can reproduce this if i kill X while i am logged in in kde, i have this now since the first(!) KDE v4 release until now, so it has something to do with KDE v4.

Possible explanation:

It seems to me, that beginning with kde 4 after a kde-crash, kde reinitializes it's own settings and deletes them unfortunately.
As theese settings are in the same place as the settings for kmail, i believe that with this reinitialization the kmail settings die.

Comment 1 Björn Ruberg 2010-03-06 23:07:47 UTC

Must be something else. Never lost settings although my system crashs sometimes for various reasons

Comment 2 Björn Ruberg 2010-03-13 16:29:04 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 192778 ***

Comment 3 Javier Ortega Conde (Malkavian) 2010-05-18 23:35:33 UTC

I had the same problem about three times, in a year. Maybe have somethingto do with KDE version updates.

I think that this bug shouldn't be marked as duplicate of bug 192778, but the failure 192778 should be marked as a duplicate of this one.