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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Fwd: [Cooker] Mandriva kmail sucks (buggy mandriva patch)
From:       Olivier Thauvin <nanardon () nanardon ! zarb ! org>
Date:       2006-05-10 14:24:01
Message-ID: 200605101624.02216.nanardon () nanardon ! zarb ! org
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Still no reply, retrying...

Some people comment already.

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Subject: [Cooker] Mandriva kmail sucks (buggy mandriva patch)
Date: Mercredi 12 Avril 2006 21:19
From: Olivier Thauvin <nanardon@nanardon.zarb.org>
To: cooker@mandrivalinux.org

For long time now (2 or 3 mandriva release) kmail try to move ~/Mail to
~/.Mail. I wasn't sure this behavior was mandriva specific. Now I am sure.

First why mandriva choose to change the change the default kmail behavior
 ???? This add bug that only appear into mandriva.

Second point: Dear kde team, YOUR PATCH IS BUGGY. I hope they will take
care...

The patch in kdepim is called: kdepim-3.2-move-mail.patch

The issue, on NFS network, the patch try to move the ~/Mail, which is used by
the imap server w/o maildir format, and also other mailer, and even a ~/.Mail
already exists kmail is still complaining at startup, worst, saying no it
exit, yes, it failed to move the directory.

Into this patch:

void KMKernel::transferMailToPointMail(void)
{
  QDir dir = QDir::home();
  int rc;

  if (!dir.cd("Mail")) return;

Adding a test to check if ~/.Mail already exists before checking is ~/Mail
exists would save time of many administrator, probably something like
(untested, no time to loose):

void KMKernel::transferMailToPointMail(void)
{
  QDir dir = QDir::home();
  int rc;

  if (dir.cd(".Mail")) return;
  if (!dir.cd("Mail")) return;

I can also open a bug report, but I don't want to loose my time on a private
package that only one or two guy can touch.

Yes I am angry, because this issue appear only on large network, typically in
a society or research lab where there is many users. The proof that the
choice of working and making choice alone is bad (which is the case of KDE).

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