Bug 323872

Summary:	Failure to read write-protected mbox files
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Volker Kuhlmann <bugz57>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugz57, kollix, montel
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.10.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	http://commits.kde.org/kdepimlibs/4a4a56b3d64d518a881a08c32dc51138909613b7	Version Fixed In:	4.14.5
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Volker Kuhlmann 2013-08-21 23:43:32 UTC

As part of a mixedmaildir resource one subdirectory contains write-protected mbox files.
kmail is unable to read them: "failed to read Mbox folder .../.folder.direcotry/folder"

(At least it no longer crashes, like it used to.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create mixedmaildir resource
2. Copy a write-protected mbox file into this
3. Try to get kmail to show its content
Actual Results:  
Error message, no action.

Expected Results:  
The contents of the mbox folder to be displayed. "write-protected" still means read, copy and search are expected actions.

Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2013-08-23 08:16:56 UTC

Will look at soon.
but mixedmaildir is just for compatibility not necessary to use it for new account.

Comment 2 Volker Kuhlmann 2013-08-23 11:30:03 UTC

Thanks!
But especially for compatibility I would expect write-protected historic mbox files to be accessible easily.

Comment 3 Martin Koller 2015-01-27 22:59:19 UTC

Confirmed with 4.14.3
The pending fix is here:  https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122255/

Comment 4 Martin Koller 2015-01-30 19:12:05 UTC

Git commit 4a4a56b3d64d518a881a08c32dc51138909613b7 by Martin Koller.
Committed on 30/01/2015 at 19:00.
Pushed by mkoller into branch 'KDE/4.14'.

Fix handling of read-only mbox files

Up till now a read-only mbox file could not be loaded, since load()
always tried to open in read-write mode.
Now it first tries to open the file readWrite and if that fails,
it retries readOnly.
Also one can now explicitely tell the class to open the file readOnly
even if it could be written.
Related: bug 138445
FIXED-IN: 4.14.5
REVIEW: 122255

M  +19   -2    kmbox/mbox.cpp
M  +30   -4    kmbox/mbox.h
M  +11   -4    kmbox/mbox_p.cpp
M  +46   -0    kmbox/tests/mboxtest.cpp
M  +1    -0    kmbox/tests/mboxtest.h

http://commits.kde.org/kdepimlibs/4a4a56b3d64d518a881a08c32dc51138909613b7