From kde-bugs-dist  Thu May 31 20:50:51 2001
From: Johan Dhondt <jdhondt () easynet ! be>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 20:50:51 +0000
To: kde-bugs-dist
Subject: Bug#26496: bug KMail with folders/subfolders and pine
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Good evening,

Under KMail, I keep my mail organised with folders and sub-
folders. 

Schematically, and for the ease of explenation of the problem,
I had something like :

   Mail
   	-> Sub A 	with: Mess-1, Mess-2
	     -> Sub-B    	with: Mess-3, Mess-113
	          -> Sub-C with : Mess-4
	-> Sub D	with: Mess-87

I'm working like this since a march, and have a few
hundreds of messages.

Now, this evening I had to read a message wiht pine (I was
following some update-recommendations, as 'root', but 
wanted to check a mail I received as 'user' ...  I suppose
you  get the picture)

After re-entering my mail system (connect as user / under
kde), my mail was completly messed-up - something 
like :

   Mail
   	-> Sub A 	with: Mess-3, Mess-3, Mess-3, ..
					repeated eg. 4 time (but with
					different dates)
			       Mess-2 repeated eg. 5 times
			       Mess-1 repeated eg. 3 times
	     -> Sub-B    	empty
	          -> Sub-C empty
		
	-> Sub D	with eg.	Mess-117
				Mess-87
   
Note, I can only schematicaly represent the situation. 

I noticed also
	- several old-message (I suppose coming from the trash-
	   folder had risen from the death (and multiplied themselves)

	- No original mail seems to have been lost

	- On a total of about 150 mails, some 25 mails had been
	   replaced and repeated (3 to 5 times)
	   (Due largely to one sub-subfolder, containing about 120 
	    mails, but which was left untouched for 95%)

	- When I was under pine (which I SUPPOSE to have 
	   created this mess), I just read some messages in 1 subfolder 
	   (schematicaly Sub-A - contains 95 % of all my mail).
	   I've done no updates (or, no updates which I am aware
	   of)

I'm running kmail under Suse 7.1 (the version that came with the
distribution).

Note : I hope you understand I didn't realy try or expiriment any
	further, nor did I try to reproduce the error - It took me
	quite some time to clean up this whole mess.
	Furthermore, it was only after some time I realised the
	different copies of the same message got different
	timestamps .. meaning : if I deleted the first occurence,
	the other one changed place to the bottom of the list - 
	so to keep my messages in order, I had to delete always
	the multiple occurrence bottom-up .. meaning : messages
	are no longer always sorted in the right logical order 
	(by thead / by date) ..
         I'm SUPPOSING the little pine-visit is responsible for this,
	because it is the only thing 'out-of-the-normal' I have 
	done. 

Kind regards

Johan D'Hondt 
jdhondt@easynet.be