Package: kmail Version: 4:3.3.2-3 Using ix86 Debian Sarge distro.
Hi! If kmail gets out of space (here it happened when I was moving some mails, and also was writing a mail) it shuts down showing a message-box telling its out of harddisk space and thereof shuts down. No options! So - I did just hope my mail - about one hour of writing - did exist in some temporary file. But it seems not. When kmail gets out of space: i would like it to wait until space is avail. Maybe not regarding all functionality, but at least for being able to rescue the mail(s) I was currently editing - and then shut down. Or maybe something like for example how Pine, or the Jove editor behaves: if something goes wrong, theres often a backup around. Also NetBSD:s great feature of automagical buffering of "lack-of-disk-space" into memory comes to my mind: kmail or entire kde could for example somewhat emulate this by saving files in two passes: the first pass writes an image in memory. A second pass tries to copy this image to the final storage device. If theres a failure: ask someone to free some space - then try again. Of course this would not be needed if running NetBSD; but in that case the user need to be informed about that virtual storage space is used and that the storage really is full and need attention. ((Even better would be if this great feature of NetBSD is put into the Linux kernel: makeing avail space on a harddisk going negative, keeping the spill in memory until someone notice and solves the storage problem or its self-solved due to an allocation-peak going back.)) Kmail could also ask me for some location I would like it to try to save the current work to. This for each mail-editing window. Not really a rocket-science feature. Often people have several storage devices available, even portable and hotpluggable ones. Another way is to show a big blue screen stating "General error, rescue not implemented. Please calm down." and some nice special selected hexadecimal digits along with it, at least making it a great shutdown. ;) Best regards, Patrik Arvhult -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]