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http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163372
Summary: X-server reset during sending mail left no trace of
email in sent/outbox folder but it was still sent
Product: kmail
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources
OS/Version: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs kde org
ReportedBy: monstermunch fmail co uk
Version: (using Devel)
Installed from: Compiled sources
This bug is probably hard to reproduce but I thought it was still worth
submitting.
Here's what just happened:
* I wrote a very long email in kmail.
* I hit send.
* I launched ksysguard during the send operation.
* My X-server reset.
* After the reset, I checkout my outbox and my sent mail folder for my email
and found nothing.
* I spoke to the email recipient and he said he did receive the email (yet I
have no record of this).
* I think (I'm not sure) that the little reply arrow on the message I replied
to was not set either.
Obviously, this is bad because I think I lost my email but didn't. I don't know
what the word is, but it sounds like you need some journal system to fix this
where you keep a list of operations that are about to happen and only take them
off the list when you've verified that the operation is complete. On a crash,
you just check the log and continue where you left of from (similar to high
reliability databases).
One quick fix would be to use the presence of an email in the outbox as a
marker for "we still have to send this message and put it in the sent box" and
then only delete the outbox item when all is complete. On a crash in the middle
of doing all this, you would just do all the operations again. It means in a
rare situation the email would be sent multiple times but that wouldn't bother
me compared to having to type my whole email out again to find that it was
already sent.
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