Bug 99272

Summary:	Possible mail loss with dimap when network connection goes down
Product:	[Applications] kontact	Reporter:	Ramon van Alteren <ramon>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Ramon van Alteren 2005-02-13 15:44:51 UTC

Version:           kmail 1.7.91 (using KDE KDE 3.3.91)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc 3.3.4 CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe"
OS:                Linux

I experienced two related incidents of mail-loss with kmail/kontact and disconnected imap.

Both occured when network connection was lost during mail synchronisation.

Kontact/kmail prints an error message that the imap-server can not be reached and asks to continue or abort.
I clicked continue to find some mailfolders missing mail, mail has also been deleted from the imap mailserver.

It appears that mail was not completely downloaded from the mailserver (courier-imap) and after I hit the continue button the folder was synchronised with the server causing any undownloaded mail to be deleted.

Comment 1 Daniel Molkentin 2005-02-20 16:36:27 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99278 ***