Bug#582953: kmail deleted all non-local incoming mail settings on upgrade
Package: kmail
Version: 4:4.4.3-1
Severity: critical
Tags: squeeze sid
Justification: causes serious data loss
Kmail is running with dimap, imap, imap and pop3 accounts. All is well. I run
aptitude safe-upgrade. Upon next login and start of kmail, all the said accounts
are gone from the settings.
During this startup of kmail (and the corresponding startup
of akonadi), there were numerous messages about unreadable mail folders. These happened
to be folders of the dimap account, but I suspect that is simply coincidence: kmail
listed the folders first and someone destroyed them before kmail actually accessed them.
This makes me wonder if akonadi is the real culprit here, after all, but I have no way
of finding out. The safe-upgrade did not update kmail, but it did update akonadi-server.
Critical: data loss: if pop3 account emails are on local disc instead of the server,
those messages are lost.
-Juha
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.34 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages kmail depends on:
ii kdebase-runtime 4:4.4.3-1 runtime components from the offici
ii kdepim-runtime 4:4.4.3-1 Runtime components for akonadi-kde
ii kdepimlibs-kio-plug 4:4.4.3-1 kio slaves used by KDE PIM applica
ii libakonadi-contact4 4:4.4.3-1 library for using the Akonadi PIM
ii libakonadi-kde4 4:4.4.3-1 library for using the Akonadi PIM
ii libc6 2.10.2-9 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-2 GCC support library
ii libgpgme++2 4:4.4.3-1 c++ wrapper library for gpgme
ii libkabc4 4:4.4.3-1 library for handling address book
ii libkcal4 4:4.4.3-1 library for handling calendar data
ii libkde3support4 4:4.4.3-2 the KDE 3 Support Library for the
ii libkdecore5 4:4.4.3-2 the KDE Platform Core Library
ii libkdepim4 4:4.4.3-1 KDE PIM library
ii libkdeui5 4:4.4.3-2 the KDE Platform User Interface Li
ii libkhtml5 4:4.4.3-2 the KHTML Web Content Rendering En
ii libkimap4 4:4.4.3-1 library for handling IMAP data
ii libkio5 4:4.4.3-2 the Network-enabled File Managemen
ii libkldap4 4:4.4.3-1 library for accessing LDAP
ii libkleo4 4:4.4.3-1 certificate based crypto library f
ii libkmime4 4:4.4.3-1 library for handling MIME data
ii libknotifyconfig4 4:4.4.3-2 library for configuring KDE Notifi
ii libkontactinterface 4:4.4.3-1 Kontact interface library
ii libkparts4 4:4.4.3-2 the Framework for the KDE Platform
ii libkpgp4 4:4.4.3-1 gpg based crypto library for KDE
ii libkpimidentities4 4:4.4.3-1 library for managing user identiti
ii libkpimtextedit4 4:4.4.3-1 library that provides a textedit w
ii libkpimutils4 4:4.4.3-1 library for dealing with email add
ii libkresources4 4:4.4.3-1 the KDE Resource framework library
ii libksieve4 4:4.4.3-1 KDE mail/news message filtering li
ii libktnef4 4:4.4.3-1 library for handling TNEF data
ii libkutils4 4:4.4.3-2 various utility classes for the KD
ii libmailtransport4 4:4.4.3-1 mail transport service library
ii libmessagecore4 4:4.4.3-1 message core library for KDE
ii libmessagelist4 4:4.4.3-1 message list library for KDE
ii libmimelib4 4:4.4.3-1 KDE MIME library
ii libnepomuk4 4:4.4.3-2 the Nepomuk Meta Data Library
ii libphonon4 4:4.6.0really4.4.1-2 the core library of the Phonon mul
ii libqt4-dbus 4:4.6.2-5 Qt 4 D-Bus module
ii libqt4-network 4:4.6.2-5 Qt 4 network module
ii libqt4-qt3support 4:4.6.2-5 Qt 3 compatibility library for Qt
ii libqt4-xml 4:4.6.2-5 Qt 4 XML module
ii libqtcore4 4:4.6.2-5 Qt 4 core module
ii libqtgui4 4:4.6.2-5 Qt 4 GUI module
ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libthreadweaver4 4:4.4.3-2 the ThreadWeaver Library for the K
ii perl 5.10.1-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii phonon 4:4.6.0really4.4.1-2 metapackage for the Phonon multime
kmail recommends no packages.
Versions of packages kmail suggests:
pn clamav | f-prot-installer <none> (no description available)
ii gnupg 1.4.10-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii gnupg-agent 2.0.14-1.1 GNU privacy guard - password agent
ii gnupg2 2.0.14-1.1 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii kaddressbook 4:4.4.3-1 KDE address book
ii kleopatra 4:4.4.3-1 KDE Certificate Manager
ii pinentry-qt4 [pinentry-x11] 0.8.0-1 Qt-4-based PIN or pass-phrase entr
ii procmail 3.22-19 Versatile e-mail processor
ii spambayes 1.0.4-5.1 Python-based spam filter using sta
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