Bug 280721

Summary:	KMail deletes mails in my Sent folder when changing it in identity preferences
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Stephan Diestelhorst <stephan.diestelhorst>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	major	CC:	finex, rigo
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.7
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Stephan Diestelhorst 2011-08-24 16:16:59 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.0) 
OS:                Linux

My "Sent Items" folder on an IMAP share had been deleted, after I changed to it in my account preferences as the folder where sent mail should be saved. This cost me emails of several years to be gone :-/

This is KMail2 on Kubuntu 11.04, from kubuntu-experimental PPA.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Steps to Reproduce:
Tried to reproduce with a different folder, but didn't work (yet).

Actual Results:  
The entire folder "Sent Items" was empty except for the emails sent on that particular date.

Expected Results:  
The old sent messages should have stayed in there.

This is a IMAP on an Exchange server.

Comment 1 Rigo Wenning 2011-12-06 17:50:15 UTC

Try to look with mutt in your sent-mail folder on imap. Maybe the emails are there. Sometimes kmail2 just doesn't show them, see 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284310
and 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281853

Comment 2 Denis Kurz 2016-09-24 17:53:26 UTC

This bug has only been reported for versions before 4.14, which have been unsupported for at least two years now. Can anyone tell if this bug still present?

If noone confirms this bug for a Framework-based version of kmail2 (version 5.0 or later, as part of KDE Applications 15.12 or later), it gets closed in about three months.

Comment 3 Denis Kurz 2017-01-07 21:45:04 UTC

Just as announced in my last comment, I close this bug. If you encounter it again in a recent version (at least 5.0 aka 15.08), please open a new one unless it already exists. Thank you for all your input.