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kdepim package

mails seems to disappear during "fetch"

Bug #153810 reported by Oscar
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: kdepim

When I fetch mails via IMAP the inbox "flickers" a lot and mails are removed (or made invisible) during the operation. When the operation completes the mails are back but it does look bad when you see all your mails (or the latest ones) disappear one by one just as if they were being deleted.
The first time I saw it I got so scared that I killed Kontact so that it wouldn't delete my whole inbox.

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Oscar (osh-nbit) wrote :

If this is something that should be fixed upstream, how do I do that? Is it possible to do from within launchpad?

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Oscar (osh-nbit) wrote :

Also, to add to the annoyance, the mail that I'm currently reading is unselected and another mail is shown after the fetch has been completed. So if I'm in the middle of reading a mail I'll have to re-select and restart reading that mail every time Kontact is finished checking my emails. Not very good.

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In , Oscar (osh-nbit) wrote :

Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.8)
Installed from: Ubuntu Packages
OS: Linux

When I fetch mails via IMAP the inbox "flickers" a lot and mails are removed (or made invisible) during the operation. When the operation completes the mails are back but it does look bad when you see all your mails (or the latest ones) disappear one by one just as if they were being deleted.
The first time I saw it I got so scared that I killed Kontact so that it wouldn't delete my whole inbox.

Also reported in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdepim/+bug/153810

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10?

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

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In , Ruchir-brahmbhatt-a (ruchir-brahmbhatt-a) wrote :

I can confirm this on 1.9.10. Selecting any imap folder first clears all message list then shows screen stating "Retrieving folder contents" and then shows updated message list. It should show previously downloaded mails(headers) and then add newly downloaded mails on top. If user is on slow connection, it may give the feeling of deleted mails as reporter had.

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In , Ruchir-brahmbhatt-a (ruchir-brahmbhatt-a) wrote :

I can confirm this on 1.11.2.

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In , Björn Ruberg (bjoern-ruberg-wegener) wrote :

I think this has been fixed in KDE 4.2.3 (what should be 1.11.3). Can you confirm this?

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In , Minh Ha Duong (haduong) wrote :

Ubuntu 10.4, I am having this behaviour since a few weeks. Latest update to kmail 1.13.2 did not resolve it.

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In , Montel-3 (montel-3) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback.

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