Bug 48038 - Lost an e-mail that was saved as draft after KMail crashed
Summary: Lost an e-mail that was saved as draft after KMail crashed
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 46540
Alias: None
Product: kmail
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 1.4.2
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2002-09-19 14:51 UTC by lukas
Modified: 2007-09-14 12:17 UTC (History)
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Description lukas 2002-09-19 14:51:40 UTC 
Version:           1.4.2 (using KDE KDE 3.0.2)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:          Linux

I've written an e-mail in KMail and saved it several times as draft in the draft folder. Suddenly KMail crashed and it wasn't even possible to restart it. After I had restarted my computer KMail started again, but the drafted e-mail was gone. It seems that KMail deletes e-mails from the draft folder when opening them. I really think it shouldn't do that since I was under the impression that the e-mail is saved on the harddrive. This bug cost me about 4 hours of work.
Comment 1 Ingo Klöcker 2002-09-19 17:44:16 UTC 
If you are using the mbox mail folder format then the message is probably 
still there. To revive it quit KMail, delete the files ~/Mail/.drafts.index* 
and restart KMail. 
 
If you are using the maildir mail folder format then the message is 
unfortunately irrevocably lost. 
 
Ingo
Comment 2 lukas 2002-09-20 10:52:53 UTC 
I've tried that and it didn't work. I also searched through  the Mail dir with KFind without success so I guess my mail is  really lost. But anyway, thanks for the hint.    Cheers  Lukas
Comment 3 Anguo 2002-09-26 18:18:02 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 46540 ***