Summary: | Kmail loses mail and folders on IMAP server | ||
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Product: | [Applications] kmail2 | Reporter: | Y <kde08> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs> |
Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
Severity: | major | CC: | cfeck, kde08, wonko |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | 4.7 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Y
2012-01-08 23:13:53 UTC
This is easily reproduced, e.g. on a laptop connected to the internet via wireless. disconnect the access point from the network, move some messages around. no apparent feedback that something went wrong, so assume everything went well. go to a different location / access point, connect, and bye bye the messages were lost in translation. even when messages do move from one IMAP server to another, they are tainted so that signatures no longer verify properly. absolutely unacceptable. moved to Thunderbird. Whoever decided to introduce Kmail 2 made a big mistake. Kmail 1 was working just fine and could have been left alone while Kmail 2 evolved. Instead, Kmail 2 has been released too quick and now, as far as I am concerned, it is Krap. I moved to Thunderbird and will not come back. The few months of Kmail 2 usage left a scar in my emails archive that will remind me not to trust anything *K*rap in the future. Looks like a duplicate of 290363. I also lost some thousands of mails, but they were not important, so I do not care that much. But it made me stop using KMail, I am a Claws Mail user now. Too bad, I like KMail, but such a loss of data is totally unacceptable. And it does not seem that anyone cares about these reports. I do not understand this. I am not familiar with the code, so mine are all speculations. The behaviour described in bug 290363 looks similar. I am not sure it is a duplicate: the author of 290363 write that he can't reproduce consistently. I can reproduce consistently by turning temporarily off the IMAP service. I also do not understand the lack of reply to the reports. To me it seems that Kmail/2 is abandoned/unmaintained. While I understand that open source software development has its pace and that we users must adapt to it, I do not understand how a "mature" community such as KDE makes such misguided decisions like replacing well working and tested software (Kmail/1) with unfinished prototypes (Kmail/2). That replacement has come too early and has done no favour to anybody. In my view, KDE's reputation has taken a serious hit and I am now looking to switch to another desktop environment all together. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 290363 *** |