Re: [PATCH] write the imap folder config more often

Matt Rogers <[email protected]> Tue, 6 Nov 2007 19:24:10 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.devel.kmail
Organization KDE
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 07:36:09 you wrote:
> On Monday 05 November 2007 02:09:59 Matt Rogers wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been running into cases where when closing KMail, imap folders
> > would be written out with empty ImapPath keys unless I opened the
> > folder before closing KMail.
> >
> > I've fixed this by calling KMFolderImap::writeConfig from
> > KMFolderIMap::initializeFrom. Since I'm not sure this is the right
> > approach, I'm sending the patch to the list for review first.
>
> That sounds more like broken open/close refcounting to me. Is it possible
> that hthe folder is prematurely closed (which writes the old, empty config)
> and hten re-opened? There's debug output that shows what opens and closes a
> folder, to help track down such issues.
>
> Till

It's possible that's what's happening. Now that I know what debug output is 
for, I'll see if that is indeed the problem and perhaps submit a new patch.
--
Matt