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

[Juan I.Guardia]

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------- Additional Comments From guard001 jguardia com  2007-04-20 16:53 -------
In response to comment #68, I realize that perhaps not many people have a setup such as mine.  But that does not mean that this bug is not reproducible.  As I said, it happened to me TWICE, under the SAME circumstances.  I have an external disk mounted in a directory under /mnt (which is in the same partition as / and /tmp).  I also have a backup script that backs up my /home directory to this disk everyday.  If for some reason I forget to mount the external disk the backup runs but all the data gets written to said directory under /mnt.  However since the disk is not mounted the data winds up on the / partition, thus filling it up.  Because / is much smaller than the external disk, it runs out of space, and this bug happens.

The issue here is not whether someone can or can't reproduce this bug because he/she doesn't have someone else's setup.  I think the root of the problem is that if the partition KMail needs as temporary storage for processing of incoming mail (be it filtering or something else) runs out of space, messages get lost and KMail is completely oblivious to the problem.  This has been evidenced by two COMPLETELY different situations, comment #12 and mine (comment #62).  I concede that I haven't tried Martin Koller's patch, and I promise to do so as soon as I get the chance.  In fact, if someone else can do it before I can, please post your results here.  Although currupt index files might be a result of this bug for some, I don't believe that has happened in my case because right now KMail is working perfectly since I have space left in / .  But as soon as I run out of it I am convinced this bug will resurface.