Bug#850462: [src:libkf5ksieve] managing sieve scripts in kmail stops working after some time

[Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>]

Control: severity -1 important

Le vendredi, 6 janvier 2017, 19.46:02 h CET Maximilian Engelhardt a écrit :
> After a fresh start of kmail managing sieve scripts does work as expected.
> After some time it doesn't work any more. Opening Settings -> Manage Sieve
> Scripts... only shows a never ending spinning wheel and is not loading the
> available scripts. Restarting kmail temporary fixed this.

I experience the same problem.

> I've seen upstream has some fixes for sieve connection management and
> backporting the following commits does indeed fix this:
> 
> (…)
> 
> I didn't have a closer look if all of the patches are needed, but applying
> them all solved the problem for me.
> All of these are included in 16.08.0 but not in 16.04.3.
> 
> It would be nice to get this fixed for stretch.

I concur. I think this bug is actually at least of severity 'important', as it 
makes the package quite unuseable.

I am hereby volunteering to fix that in stretch, if that's okay for the team.

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    OdyX