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http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90566        
           Summary: removing folders on remote IMAP server without warning
           Product: kmail
           Version: 1.6.2
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kmail-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: cepl surfbest net


Version:           1.6.2 (using KDE 3.2.3,  (testing/unstable))
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian 20040422)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.18-686

After wild using different email IMAP clients (Mozilla Thunderbird, Pine, Apple Mail.app, mutt) on my university IMAP account (the reason was that my computer went south and I had to work in different computer labs), I have got somehow screwed up folders on the remote server (which claims to be "iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)" it is some kind of gateway to the university Lotus Notes based system (the webmail for the same system is on http://myneu.neu.edu), so there were some folders which cannot be removed by any client (IMAP or webmail).

So very kind mail server administrator agreed to recover my system, which meant that all messages were somehow stored somewhere else, everything on the server was zapped and messages recovered.

Comes KMail and Disconnected IMAP. I have tried to sync the account in the moment I thought recovery was already done, but unfortunately in that moment there was only one (empty) Draft folder (not even INBOX). So I checked the content of the server via webmail next day and everything looked dandy. Therefore I fired KMail and synced again (it was morning and I was working whole night so my reactions were not the best). I understood what was going only when KMail reported that it cannot remove folder INBOX from the remote server. All messages were zapped both in the local cache and on the remote server.

Fortunately, the good guy at the university had backups so he was able to recover my messsages (I hope, I haven't tested it yet), but shouldn't KMail when removing ANY remote folder (or doing something so serious as that) at least ask whether I am serious about it?

Thanks,

Matej
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