Re: "Conflict resolution" message(s)

On Thursday 11 October 2012 09:11:50 Andras Mantia wrote:
> Russ Kepler wrote:
> > I often get a "Conflict resolution" message when in mail, the attached
> > when I
> > sent a reply to an email I'd recently received.  I don't really know what
> > these messages are for and I tend to simply "take the left one".
> > 
> > Can someone explain what causes these and maybe some way to eliminate
> > them?
> 
> It says that there were two, conflicting modifications for the same item
> (mail). Here some application modified the mail to be read (\SEEN on the
> left part), while the other modified to mark it as read and replied (\SEEN,
> $REPLIED). You see the timestamp of the modifications and the difference.
> Take left/right is about which version do you want to keep.
> That is about the dialog. Now if this is user friendly or if it should
> appear or not it is another question.
> 
> The problems:
> 
> 1) It should appear only if really needed. E.g if you modify the same mail
> in KMail and another application. Apparently now it appears also when only
> KMail is involved, so if you could find how to reproduce, would be great.
> If you do, please report it on bugs.kde.org.
> 
> 2) The dialog is not user friendly, it is hard to find the differences
> especially if the change in not in the flags (like here), but in the message
> structure. Suggestions to improve it are welcome.
> 
Hi
I get those if and only if I touch new mail while the filters are still 
churning (which takes some 10-20 seconds)
joa



Joran Ahlback 
FI-02450

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