Bug#410794: kmail: Imap messages become blank
Package: kmail
Version: 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6
Severity: grave
Justification: causes non-serious data loss
Sometimes an IMAP message becomes blank, i.e. shows no content. Using a
different IMAP client shows that the content is still there. Looks like
kmail is caching the messages locally and not storing the content.
This seems to happen for messages which are currently being viewed in
kmail: going back to kmail later and the message is blank. However, this
doesn't happen every time: it has probably happened to 5 messages so far
but has only been happening in the past few weeks.
If view the source of the messages in kmail, the blank messages have
lost the majority of the headers too.
One message which had an attachment gave me a zero-byte file when I
tried to save the attachment. A couple of minutes later, the whole
message had blanked.
This is for IMAP accounts which were set up before DIMAP was introduced:
I've juse removed the account and added it again so it is definitely
IMAP and not DIMAP to see if it cures it.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (850, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.18-1
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages kmail depends on:
ii kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-5 core I/O slaves for KDE
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-5 core libraries and binaries for al
ii kdepim-kio-plugins 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE pim I/O Slaves
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libaudio2 1.8-2 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.6.5-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkcal2b 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE calendaring library
ii libkdepim1a 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE PIM library
ii libkleopatra1 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE GnuPG interface libraries
ii libkmime2 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE MIME interface library
ii libkpimidentities1 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE PIM user identity information
ii libksieve0 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE mail/news message filtering li
ii libmimelib1c2a 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6 KDE mime library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.7-3 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-5 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.7-4 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-5 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages kmail recommends:
ii procmail 3.22-16 Versatile e-mail processor
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