Version: (using KDE 4.2.1) Installed from: SuSE RPMs Because I don't see any backup mechanism it is fairly easy to loose mail while composing it, and what's more KMail actually misleads user about the security -- saving as draft, is to any similar to save-often while editing in kate, because each time you continue editing the mail the mail is deleted by KMail. This is serious issue. How to reproduce. 1) start KMail, new message 2) type something in Composer 3) save as draft 4) go to drafts folder 5) edit the saved mail 6) you see composer? Ok, kill Kmail (not quit, kill) 7) run KMail again 8) all you typed before (6) is lost Once again -- saved data in Kate, are saved. Saved data in KMail are _not_ saved.
I can't reproduce this. I kill kmail and after I reopen it, composer appears together with the main window and shows everything I had typed.
I can reproduce it using KDE3.5.10 and KDE4.2.1 -- I only once was unable to reproduce it (i.e. the composer restored the mail). Btw. I killed Kmail using KDE kill. However I encountered data loss (for real) when the whole system crashed. The current design for me is too risky -- the original mail should stay in place, and further saving should alter it. Pretty much as it happens with editor. Or if it is impossible, keep the original content, until the new mail could be replaced, and only after that the old one would be deleted.
It is about the same consecuencies... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 186932 ***