Dear Maintainer, Double-click a message in any folder; unlike in kmail1, the message opens as editable (in kmail1 this was only true for Outbox). However, if the message is opened from the sent-mail folder, then -- just like with outbox -- it is also removed from the list. When you close the message, as with any editable, you are offered to discard the changes or save as draft. If you discard, all is well; but if you save as draft, it is removed permanently from the sent folder, losing the data that the message was sent.
Hello, I tried to duplicate this with 4.14.1. I had to hit "T" in order to actually edit the message, and then if I make a change and save it, the save button says "Save to Draft", for me the modified message moved to the Drafts folder. By any chance is the modified message now in the draft folder for you? Diane Trout
Hello, I tried to duplicate this with 4.14.1. I had to hit "T" in order to actually edit the message, and then if I make a change and save it, the save button says "Save to Draft", for me the modified message moved to the Drafts folder. By any chance is the modified message now in the draft folder for you? Diane Trout
Hi, Yes, it is. I might have considered it not-really-data-loss, if the behavior had only been specifically triggered by editing the message. But: A) I definitely (just checked again) didn't need to press T (which is labeled in the menu as "Edit message"). On the other hand, double-click behaves as "T" for me in other folders as well. Is there a setting I messed up? I couldn't find anything looking relevant. B) I expect behavior in sent-messages to be the same as, say, inbox, where the message, even if selected for editing, is not changed or removed, but a new copy of it is created and edited. The message moving to the draft folder is already losing its sent status and sent date/time, and is highly likely to lose the message itself as well (if the user did not expect or notice that the draft takes the place of the old sent message). Thanks, Shai.
Hey, I cant reproduce the behavour in 4:4.14.2-2: (sent folder, inbox,...) * double-click at any message opens the mail in view mode not edit mode * open it with edit mode (press T) opens the mail in edit mode but do NOT delete the mail (outbox) * double-click at the mail open it as expected in edit mode and delete the mail from outbox * asks for saving (save in draft -> saves it to draft, discard restore the mail in the outbox) I would suggest you test with a clean user and/or check all identities. It sounds like one identity uses the sent folder as outbox. Regads, sandro
Well. Logoff, logon, and inbox is back to normal behavior (double-clicking the message in the list opens it for reading, not editing). Sent-mail is still exactly as described.
Hi, sent-mail folder, the drafts folder and the templates folder. I couldn't find the identities in kmail2rc, so I don't even know how to do it with non-UI. Nevertheless, I checked those folders on all identities, and there was one anomaly (probably a remainder from the problem reported in [1]) -- one identity (which I haven't used for sending in years) had its "sent-folder" set to a sub-folder of inbox. I set it straight, and things seem to be normal now. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727800#10 Thanks, Shai. PS: This still makes me very uncomfortable: If KMail2's config can be easily broken in ways that lead to data loss -- and by "easily" I mean "without user intervention" -- is there a way to run a "health check"? I don't feel it is right to close this bug without understanding what happened and how it can be prevented, so I'm not closing it myself; but I won't object if you guys decide to close it. Shai.