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Re: KMail nastiness in binary package with Sarge



On May 16, 2004 at 02:30, Martin Michlmayr praised the llamas by saying:
> * James Buchanan <buchanan@iinet.net.au> [2004-05-16 00:23]:
> > There is a serious bug in KMail which comes with Debian Sarge which 
> > causes the loss of mail (all mail is just deleted for some reason).  
> > The version of KMail affected is 1.6.2.
> > 
> > The KMail package with KDE 3.2.2 should be patched up ASAP and the 
> > binary rebuilt before any more unfortunate souls who use KDE lose all 
> > their mail!  (If you're as lazy as I am and don't regularly backup 
> > your mail folders that is ... :-)
> > 
> > From the KMail News Page:
> > 
> > 2004-02-05
> > WARNING: There are two critical bugs in KMail 1.6 (KDE 3.2) which can 
> > lead to loss of mail. Please apply the patch from the KDE 3.2 info 
> > page. 
> > 
> > Patch: 
> > http://download.kde.org/stable/3.2/src/kdepim-3.2.0-HOT_FIX_FOR_KMAIL.patch
> 
> It's better to file a bug on the kmail package for such things.  Let's
> CC the maintainer.

This was fixed before 3.2.1. The Debian packages tend to take recent
snapshots from BRANCH, which includes the latest stable fixes. There is
no need to file a bug for this.

http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdepim/kmail/kmfolderimap.cpp?sortby=date&only_with_tag=KDE_3_2_BRANCH
http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdepim/kmail/kmfilter.cpp?sortby=date&only_with_tag=KDE_3_2_1_RELEASE

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David Pashley
david@davidpashley.com
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