Bug 249197 - attachment not saved
Summary: attachment not saved
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: kmail
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 1.13.5
Platform: Unlisted Binaries Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Depends on:
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Reported: 2010-08-27 10:12 UTC by Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli
Modified: 2015-04-12 09:48 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli 2010-08-27 10:12:14 UTC
Version:           1.13.5 (using KDE 4.4.5) 
OS:                Linux

I got an email and tried to view and save it's attachment. The view window was EMPTY and the saved file had 0 size.

This is the email (removed almost all the headers)


Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:01:45 +0000
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100813 Thunderbird/3.1.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: Re: wifi
X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
  boundary="------------030906030202060509050501"
X-Length: 6651
X-UID: 5218

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--------------030906030202060509050501
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

 Il 26/08/2010 08:54, Salvo 'LtWorf' Tomaselli ha scritto:

non si puo' aprire ne questo e quello dopo

--------------030906030202060509050501
Content-Type: application/pgp-keys;
 name="0x598DC43C.asc"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: attachment;
 filename="0x598DC43C.asc"

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--------------030906030202060509050501--


Reproducible: Didn't try




OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.34.5-galatea
Compiler: cc
Comment 1 Ferdinand Gassauer 2010-12-16 14:11:55 UTC
this happens here very often if  attachments are loaded on demand.

sometimes - I believe opening it the first time - the attachment is usually available , accesssing it again it's emtpy - if it is "empty" all operations save and   copy files with size 0 - if the mails is deleted, information is obviously lost.

I suggested already once to keep/cache a local copy of downloaded attachments at least for a certain time - this would increase the perceived performance a lot   - especially for mobile/remote users
Comment 2 Laurent Montel 2015-04-12 09:48:47 UTC
Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback.