Re: Err... Stupid KMail

Daniel Cassidy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.cafe
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 15 September 2003 2:13 am, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>    Any one familiar with some kind of bug in KMail that could cause it
> to lose all of its settings (including filters and accounts)? Last night
> my system locked up while I was shutting down KMail and when I came back
> online today, all of my accounts, dozens of filters, and all of my
> settings were just gone. Apparently the same thing happened recently on
> my laptop, because I went into KMail on it (which I normally don't do
> since I want to keep my mail on my desktop), and the settings were all
> gone there as well.

I haven't checked the source, but AFAICT, presumably as a result of poor 
design, all KDE apps seem to lose settings if they're interrupted while 
writing to config files. The simplest solution is to use a less buggy 
distribution that doesn't lock up at random, like for example anything other 
than Mandrake.

-- 
Dan.

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