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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#34558: emails are lost due to lack of disk space
From:       Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=E4ckel?= <haeckel () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-11-06 12:23:51
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On Tuesday 06 November 2001 00:28, al867@columbia.edu wrote:
>
> My home partition recently ran out of space. (df showed it at 100% full). I
> was away for a few days and did not know this was the case. When I got back
> I noticed kmail was quit (not crashed) anytime I wanted to open a new
> message or some folder. When I cleared up some disk space kmail worked
> fine. However, I have not received any new emails for the duration of my
> space being maxed out. Since I usually get loads of it, and its not found
> on the server, I'm lead to believe that Kmail pop'ed my mail off the server
> and was not able to store it due to space limitations on my drive.
>
> This resulted in loss of mail! One way to correct this problem would be to
> introduce an option of "Do not pop mail if drive is more than X% full."

Sorry, I can't believe this. At least I have absolutely no explanation, how 
KMail can loose mail in this case. If KMail exits, then it can't delete the 
mails on the server, besides the fact, that KMail shouldn't delete mails at 
all it has not stored successfully on the hard disc.

You don't possibly use a local POP3 server which also couln't append any mails 
due to lack of disk space?

Regards,
Michael Häckel

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