Bug 284508

Summary:	"Local folders" should not be an account
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	abrahams
Component:	config dialog	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	montel
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	4.7
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
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Description abrahams 2011-10-19 23:00:37 UTC

Version:           4.7 (using KDE 4.7.2) 
OS:                Linux

There is no reason I can see for Local Folders being listed as an account, since it doesn't resemble any other account and isn't used for sending and receiving. Thinking it was there in error, I deleted it and lost all my email.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Delete the "Local Folders" account

Actual Results:  
All your email is lost.

Expected Results:  
At a very minimum, there should be a warning that you're about to delete all your email.

"Local Folders" should not be listed as an account.  The setting for the location of the local folders should be somewhere else.

Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2011-10-20 06:59:20 UTC

No it's an account.
We define where is your local folder.
you can restore your email when you point to local folder directory.

We don't delete email we delete account.

And there is a dialogbox to warning that you will remove account