Version: 1.3 (using 4.1.3 (KDE 4.1.3) "release 4.10.4", openSUSE 11.1) Compiler: gcc OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.27.23-0.1-default I have one email folder in my list called "registrations" where I store emails containing things like product keys and download links for products I purchase on-line. I have need to add emails 3-5 times per year. Twice now Kmail has physically lost this folder and required me to extract it from a backup and re-import it. (Thankfully I store in mbox format.) No other folder in the list disappears. It doesn't just disappear from the list, everything about it is gone. I don't, ordinarily, have any cause to delete a folder, so this isn't "user error". It appears there is an "undocumented feature" which now has "registrations" as some kind of reserved word when it comes to folder names. I don't know how to reproduce this bug. I leave my system up for weeks on end only rebooting after updates, or severe system crashes. Since I reduced the memory to 6Gig, I haven't had any system crashes, and the folder disappearances have happened without system crashes. If this is a "reserved folder name" I would expect the folder creation/rename capability to block its initial usage.
It's not a reserved name. If it disappears, you mean inside kmail or did you also check the disk if it was really gone ? (~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/....)
Really Really Really Really restore from old backup gone. It only happens to this folder and the folder is rarely used. Has not happened since renaming restored folder to "product_registrations" so it really looks like there is a bug in kmail or a supporting package which is causing folders named "registrations" to be nuked.
Out of curiosity: can you create an empty folder with that name somewhere in your $HOME and see if it also disappears at some point in time ? Just to see if it's some global thingy doing that ...
I had the directory requested created prior to the last time the mailbox directory went away. It sped things up during the restoration. I just manually created the "registrations" mbox folder again. I shall try to notice when it goes bye-bye again. It's not something systemy though or the quick restore directory I had created should have perished.
Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this version of Kmail has been unmaintained for many years so I am closing this bug. Please try using the latest version of Kmail to see if your issue persists. If it does, please submit a new bug in "kmail2". Thank you!