kmail downgrade wipes dimap cache
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kdepim (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I recently upgraded from intrepid to jaunty just to find that I'm affected by bug 338669.
Thus I re-installed intrepid on a separate partition yet sharing /home between both installs.
The next time I launched kmail it siltently wiped all the gigabytes of dimap cache.
Version in jaunty: kmail 4:4.2.2-0ubunut1
Version in intrepid: kmail 4:4.1.4-
Perhaps using kmail 4.2.2 had siltently converted the file format, at least
kmail 4.1.4 did not accept the dimap files as its own and initialized from scratch.
More precisely:
folder .kde/share/
.kde/share/
dialog my account's receiving side is empty.
Perhaps using an older kmail on files last modified by a more recent kmail is
a bad idea to begin with (yet a distribution bug may force you to downgrade the OS,
so you may have no choice?), BUT erasing gigabytes of mails should never go without
a warning and an option to cancel, IMO.
Unfortunately downgrade scenarios are not supported, neither by KDE, nor Kubuntu, nor Canonical.
We certainly can discuss whether a downgrade is sometimes necessary and whether KMail should detect that you are trying to downgrade and whine you about it. But really, would you have the limited time developers have rather see spent on assuring that downgrades work or that upgrades work?
Marking invalid.