Bug#268748: Importing mbox files prints many bogus "errors" about duplicate subject lines
Package: kmail
Version: 4:3.3.0-2
Severity: normal
When importing several large mbox files into kmail, I got this message
dozens of times:
"Duplicate message subject error when adding message to folder
MBOX-debbugs in KMail"
Now, last I checked, it was still legal to send and receive distinct
messages with the same subject. In fact, this is encouraged when
sending messages to mailing lists. So I don't think this dialog is
appropriate at all. (and if that's not what the dialog means, it needs
to be rewritten so it actually says what it means)
Much worse, the dialog is displayed every time this condition is
encountered, and the program stops processing the current mailbox every
single time. I don't think I have to spell out the problem with this --
if the message must be displayed, it should either be displayed in the
status area of the import window (the one that says "Importing messages
from blahblahblah..."), displayed as a pop-up dialog once and not
displayed again, or at least displayed with a button you can push to
disable it in the future.
Clicking furiously on "Ok" buttons,
Daniel
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Versions of packages kmail depends on:
ii kdelibs4 4:3.3.0-1.1 KDE core libraries
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-7 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libkcal2 4:3.3.0-2 KDE calendaring library
ii libkdenetwork2 4:3.3.0-2 KDE Network library
ii libkdepim1 4:3.3.0-2 KDE PIM library
ii libkleopatra0 4:3.3.0-2 KDE GnuPG interface libraries
ii libkpimidentities1 4:3.3.0-2 KDE PIM user identity information
ii libksieve0 4:3.3.0-2 KDE mail/news message filtering li
ii libmimelib1 4:3.3.0-2 KDE mime library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-7 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.3-4 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii perl 5.8.4-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-7 compression library - runtime
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