[Bug 427191] Re: kmail displays "No such file or directory" error message on startup with IMAP folder

Mon Apr 13 06:54:59 UTC 2015

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On 2010-04-01T14:47:12+00:00 Dennis Schridde wrote:

Version:            (using KDE 4.4.1)
Compiler:          gcc 4.4.3 Gentoo 4.4.3 p1.0
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

I recently forced a resync of my imap cache, which made a problem appear:
Upon startup, and when pressing OK or Accept in the configuration dialogue, KMail presents me 10 windows with following content:
"Error when opening /home/$USER/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/dimap/1668694697. This folder does not exist." [Translated]

A console log and a backtrace of that state is attached.

Examining the apps/kmail/dimap folder showed several .NUMBER.directory folders with no accompanying NUMBER folder.
Appart from several .SOMETHING.uidcache files, they contain only some .SOMETHING.directory folders:
.kde4/share/apps/kmail/dimap/.130708501.directory
.kde4/share/apps/kmail/dimap/.130708501.directory/.INBOX.directory
.kde4/share/apps/kmail/dimap/.1402182378.directory
.kde4/share/apps/kmail/dimap/.1402182378.directory/.somenamespace.directory
.kde4/share/apps/kmail/dimap/.1587347013.directory
.kde4/share/apps/kmail/dimap/.1668694697.directory
.kde4/share/apps/kmail/dimap/.1785330918.directory
.kde4/share/apps/kmail/dimap/.1785330918.directory/.somefolder.directory
.kde4/share/apps/kmail/dimap/.1991805192.directory
.kde4/share/apps/kmail/dimap/.1991805192.directory/.INBOX.directory

My theory is that I am seeing three different issues:
1) When deleting some IMAP accounts KMail "forgot" to delete all folders.
2) When resyncing imap caches, instead of ignoring or deleting the stale folders, KMail started messing with them, probably trying to recreate the uid caches.
3) The error handling during recreation of the uid caches is not verbose enough and displays just a default and uninformative error message.

This bug shows similarities with problem 1 in bug #209208.

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On 2010-04-01T14:49:32+00:00 Dennis Schridde wrote:

Created attachment 42422
backtrace after SIGINT while message boxes are displayed

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On 2010-04-01T14:49:56+00:00 Dennis Schridde wrote:

Created attachment 42423
console log

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On 2010-04-01T14:50:39+00:00 Dennis Schridde wrote:

I deleted the stale folders inside the dimap dir I mentioned above. The
error messages are now gone.

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On 2010-04-01T14:54:31+00:00 Dennis Schridde wrote:

P.S: I recognize these folders (somenamespace and somefolder) as parts
of imap accounts I had setup earlier.

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On 2010-04-02T11:59:25+00:00 Björn Ruberg wrote:

Problem 1 in bug #209208 is yours. As this report is much more clean
about this I mark 209208 as a duplicate.

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On 2010-04-02T11:59:31+00:00 Björn Ruberg wrote:

*** Bug 209208 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2010-04-02T12:25:23+00:00 Dennis Schridde wrote:

My statement "KMail presents me 10 windows with following content" above
is inaccurate. Of course the actual folder varies, and the 10 windows
each mention a different of the 10 folders.

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On 2015-04-12T10:14:13+00:00 Montel-3 wrote:

Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through
significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5
and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give
your feedback.

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