Bug 1422626 - KMail does not save settings
Summary: KMail does not save settings
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kmail
Version: 25
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Rex Dieter
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-02-15 17:45 UTC by Neil
Modified: 2017-03-17 19:33 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-03-17 19:33:09 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Neil 2017-02-15 17:45:34 UTC
Description of problem:
When changing settings in KMail the settings are not saved.  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kmail.x86_64   16.08.3-2.fc25
kmail.x86_64   16.08.3-2.fc24 
(kmail 5.3.3)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Kmail
2. Hit View -> Headers
3. Select "Fancy Headers"
4. Note header in displayed message changes
5. Exit kmail
6. Reload kmail

Actual results:
Header in displayed messages goes back to "KMail 5.2"

Expected results:
Header in displayed message uses "Fancy Headers"

Additional info:
- Seems to affect most settings (ie. Settings->KMail->Security->Prefer HTML) though with some settings the configuration sticks but doesn't seem to be read on kmail launch.

- Workaround:
   1. Load Kmail
   2. Hit "Settings->KMail"
   3. Press OK (no need to change anything, just hit OK)
   - After this the settings appear to reload.

Seems Kmail on Fedora is not reading all the settings when it loads.  This occurs on both Fedora 24 and Fedora 25 and has been happening for a while now (at least a year).

This bug report was based on a fresh install of Fedora 25.  I didn't file earlier because I thought it might be specific to my setup but after doing a fresh F25 install (with all latest stable updates installed) on a new computer I noticed the same problem.

Comment 1 Neil 2017-02-15 17:49:38 UTC
Listing what I think may be relevant packages installed on F25 system:

[root@kay-lenovo neil]# dnf list kmail* *kdepim*
Last metadata expiration check: 1:50:22 ago on Wed Feb 15 10:57:03 2017.
Installed Packages
kdepim-addons.x86_64                                                            16.08.3-2.fc25                                                    @updates
kdepim-apps-libs.x86_64                                                         16.08.3-2.fc25                                                    @updates
kdepim-common.x86_64                                                            16.08.3-2.fc25                                                    @updates
kdepim-libs.x86_64                                                              7:16.08.3-2.fc25                                                  @updates
kdepim-runtime.x86_64                                                           1:16.08.3-1.fc25                                                  @updates
kdepim-runtime-libs.x86_64                                                      1:16.08.3-1.fc25                                                  @updates
kdepimlibs.x86_64                                                               4.14.10-17.fc25                                                   @updates
kdepimlibs-akonadi.x86_64                                                       4.14.10-17.fc25                                                   @updates
kdepimlibs-gpgme.x86_64                                                         4.14.10-17.fc25                                                   @updates
kdepimlibs-kxmlrpcclient.x86_64                                                 4.14.10-17.fc25                                                   @updates
kf5-libkdepim.x86_64                                                            16.08.3-1.fc25                                                    @updates
kmail.x86_64                                                                    16.08.3-2.fc25                                                    @updates
kmail-libs.x86_64                                                               16.08.3-2.fc25                                                    @updates

Comment 2 Neil 2017-03-17 19:33:09 UTC
The upgrade was a disaster but this is fixed with the latest updates installed.


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