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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: Fwd: [Cooker] Mandriva kmail sucks (buggy mandriva patch)
From:       Olivier Thauvin <nanardon () nanardon ! zarb ! org>
Date:       2006-05-10 15:34:52
Message-ID: 200605101734.52796.nanardon () nanardon ! zarb ! org
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Le Mercredi 10 Mai 2006 17:11, Laurent Montel a écrit :
> On Wednesday 10 May 2006 16:24, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
> > Still no reply, retrying...
>
> Read spec file before to write email
> patch10 is never apply into kdepim.
> Regards.

So, why it is still include ? it's a waste of disk space ! And then rpmlint 
complain about this (maybe you don't read rpmlint warning fr your package).

This does not change the fact there is a real bug with the move of ~/Mail to 
~/.Mail.

>
> > Some people comment already.
> >
> > ----------  Message transmis  ----------
> >
> > 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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