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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] kmail: what it's doing...
From:       Bill Anderson <bill-kdepim () noreboots ! com>
Date:       2007-04-07 18:27:31
Message-ID: 200704071227.31426.bill-kdepim () noreboots ! com
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On Saturday 07 April 2007 01:34:11 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 06 April 2007, Bill Anderson wrote:
> > On Friday 06 April 2007 12:46:02 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > Your choice, but that will not help you to ever know what caused it.
> > > It's not kmail's normal behaviour.  Something caused it.  How do you
> > > know that the same cause will not affect another application?  If it
> > > were me, I'd want to find the reason.
> >
> > It depends on how willing to lose email you are. I know for me I had to
> > remove all but one of my accounts from KMail because it was deleting mail
> > due to a (still unfixed) bug. Some bugs you can tolerate while exploring,
> > but when it comes to data loss one should not be expected to "work
> > through it".
>
> True.  For situations like this, I use very regular (several times a day)
> cron backups, in multi-generations :-)

I'm with you there, but in my case even that wouldn't catch them. Bug 138855. 
Messages come in, get filtered, sync happens, they get deleted. It's sad to 
me because KMail is like the Capitalism of email clients: Of all of them it 
sucks the least. ;) 

My other gripes I can mostly live with. Things like not being able to set a 
view filter (such as viewing Unread Messages Only) on a folder and have that 
be the default when I come back - instead of having to select it every time; 
selecting a different sort order on one folder and that gets set for all 
folders I view after; not being able to send a message to an external app 
that returns a value I can use as a trigger for filters. Those types of 
letdowns I can kinda live with. Unfortunately that bug is just too dangerous 
to keep using Kmail.

I suppose I could use an Inotify based script to pull all new messages into a 
backup folder outside of kmail but it's not worth the trouble. I could also 
go back to the debug build where it asks me each time, but then well it gets 
ugly with all the dialogs.

Cheers,
Bill

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