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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    [Bug 72441] Hide Mail and dead.letter
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-01-21 19:37:36
Message-ID: 20050121193736.24870.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From zander kde org  2005-01-21 20:37 -------
On Friday 21 January 2005 20:11, S.Burmeister wrote:
> So one would have to do a survey to know which method is less safe. Yet
> that would not really help. Although I cannot prove it my thesis is that
> if one looks at the total number of people losing their email-data, the
> decrease because of not deleting it by mistake, would be exceeded by the
> increase of data-loss due to it being hidden and thus forgotten/not known
> about.

Do you base that on the assumption that people migrate to new 
installations/computers a lot?
That seems out of touch with reality; any linux distro allows upgading 
without formatting, for example.
Please ask around how many people that use 1 computer operating system 
(which is an assumption if you have your mail locally) have migrated to new 
hardware or a new OS.  Formatting their harddrive.  Let us know how many 
you found (that are not system-maintainers themselves :)

No, all the prove points in the other direction.
Keeping a directory out it the open in the end means people can and will use 
it, which they are not suppost to do.  And this started because we want to 
encourage people to do as they please with non-hidden directories.

> Remove the data from the space it can easily be deleted, offer a
> functionality  that gives the user easy access to migrate and save 
> its data. 
This we agree on; and the first part is what this bug is suppost to fix; the 
other part is out of scope for this bugreport.  But see comment #14 for a 
solution in that department.
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