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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Bug#4128: Pine message ist permantly updated
From:       Jason Stephenson <panda () mis ! net>
Date:       2000-05-29 15:35:53
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On Mon, 29 May 2000, Michael Haeckel wrote:
> It should stay on the server, but all mailers except pine itself that I know 
> download it. I don't know why pine can't store it's information somewhere 
> else. On one mail server I use I managed to configure pine that it does not 
> store there mails but I don't know any longer how that worked.

I don't think this is Pine's message. It is stored by the mail server software
itself. I don't know what mail server software does this, maybe all that run on
UNIX, but I've seen this message before myself on a POP3 mail server. It's used
to configure your account.

> 
> When I delete it from the server then the rest of the folder on the server 
> wents away also, but luckily it is usually downloaded as last message.

OK, I thought something like that might happen. The message does state that it
will be rebuilt with defaults if you delete the message. That leads me to
believe that the worst that should happen is you lose any configuration that
you might have done. It seems dangerous to me that you lose messages when that
one message is deleted. That's a really poor design, IMHO.

I'll take a look at the test folder you sent and see if I can reproduce the
behavior you mentioned. I'm using KMail 1.0.29 right now while KDE 2.0 compiles
on my machine. I'll try it in KMail 1.1 as soon as the compile is done.

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