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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    [Bug 60508] New: When receiving from maildir, cancelling the
From:       John Clark <jwclark () lpgmt ! com>
Date:       2003-06-30 0:56:32
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           Summary: When receiving from maildir, cancelling the receive
                    nukes the entire source maildir
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Mandrake RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kmail@kde.org
        ReportedBy: jwclark@lpgmt.com


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    Mandrake RPMs
OS:          Linux

Hi all,

I have used kmail exclusively for the past 2 years also and love it. However, I just \
discovered a "feature" that enabled me to lose all the emails that I had yet to \
receive over the past 2 1/2 days.

Due to regular problems with fetchmail, I switched to getmail which works well. I \
configured getmail to dump all the mail from my various POPs on the 'net into a \
single Maildir (which happens to be located in ~/.getmail/incoming)

(by the way, this maildir is NOT under ~/Mail... I couldn't make out from the scant \
documentation on the "receiving from Maildir" feature in kmail whether kmail \
preferred this or not - my concerns about locking caused me to decide to put it \
outside ~/Mail).

Anyway, I have configured kmail to receive mail from this maildir, filter it with \
spamassassin and dump the (ham) messages into my inbox (I get lots of spam, so I'd \
die without spamassassin).

This has worked really well for a few weeks now.

After a weekend away, I returned, started kmail and invoked the receiving process - \
420 emails started being received and spam-filtered (as per normal after a weekend \
away). Using spamassassin via a kmail filter can take a while and loads up the \
processor a little, so I knew it was going to spend a while chewing over all those \
emails.

However, I then realised that there was something else I wanted to do urgently on my \
PC, so I thought "no problem, I'll just cancel the receiving process on kmail". So I \
clicked on the "X" next to the receiving progress indicator (after only 5 or 6 emails \
had been processed). 

BAD MOVE!

When I later clicked on "get mail" to receive the remaiing emails, to my horror I \
found that all the mails in "!/.getmail/incoming" had been nuked by kmail! - must've \
happened when I cancelled the last receive.

This "feature" is not nice! Any chance it could be made a little nicer. I don't like \
having my mail sent to a black hole just because I want to cancel a receiving job.

Thanks in advance for a solution,

John
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