[Bug 50462] mail is permanently lost if disk is full

[Jakub Januszkiewicz]

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------- Additional Comments From jakub.januszkiewicz gmail com  2007-03-19 08:50 -------
This bug just hit me, too.

My / (with /tmp) and /home are separate partitions. /home ran out of space and KMail quit with a message like "KMail crashed because disk is full" (well something similar). I immediately started KMail again (before freeing some space on /home) and it started happening - clicking on *some* emails or applying filters erased the messages (no author, no title, no content).

I guess KMail should either refuse to start when any partition it writes to is full or (better) start in read-only mode (no mail fetching, filtering, moving/copying etc), possibly switching back to read-write mode when it detects that some space has been freed.

If this is just a corrupt index problem then KMail should either inform user what to do or do it automatically.

I'm using KDE 3.5.6, KMail 1.9.6.