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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] Detecting deleted messages not working well
From:       Bill Anderson <bill-kdepim () noreboots ! com>
Date:       2006-12-27 22:14:54
Message-ID: 200612271514.54901.bill-kdepim () noreboots ! com
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On Monday 04 December 2006 15:41, Bill Anderson wrote:
> Since upgrading to KMail 3.5.5 (gentoo), I am now getting messages saying
> that certain UIDs have been deleted from the server asking me if I want to
> delete them here as well (using disconnected IMAP). Nice idea, poor
> implementation. Here is why.
>
> First, on all but one of these mailboxes, there is nothing else accessing
> them. IMAP server logs verify this. So nothing else is deleting messages.
> Yet somehow KMail thinks they are. This is likely simply a bug.
>
> However, the poor implementation aspect is that:
> 1) It doesn't remember the decision
> 2) It stops mail-checking/synchronization
>
> I understand #2 *may* be necessary. But #1 is not. If for some reason I do
> not want to delete the allegedly deleted messages (perhaps because I happen
> to know they are still there!), I should not be asked every single time it
> checks that mailbox.


I've created Bug 138855 for this problem. There are additional details and 
scenarios where data loss can occur listed in the comments.
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