[Users] [Bug 3837] New: Lost POP account messages caused by power outage during download?

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            Bug ID: 3837
           Summary: Lost POP account messages caused by power outage
                    during download?
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: Claws Mail
           Version: GIT
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: critical
          Priority: P3
         Component: POP3
          Assignee: users at lists.claws-mail.org
          Reporter: info.mardorf at rocketmail.com

Claws Mail version 3.15.0git44

While downloading mails of several POP accounts, I read one of the already
downloaded mails. Right after or still during the downloads there was a
breakdown of current. After the power outage some mails were completely lost,
while most other mails were without content, even without headers, IOW "No
Subject, No Date" etc.. I noticed already some of those "No Subject, No Date"
mails during the downloads.

However, all of those new mails are lost, including the one I already was
reading. I'm not surprised that a power outage could cause this issue, but I'm
surprised that while "Remove messages on server when received" is unchecked,
those lost messages were not downloaded again.

Seemingly the downloaded mails were just temporarily stored, but the info that
they already were downloaded wasn't just temporarily stored. OTOH it's strange
that I already saw some of those "No Subject, No Date" mails during the
download, since I can't remember that I ever have seen this before, so maybe
something else was fishy.

Claws now works again as expected and fortunately I could download the mails
with Evolution. Anyway, something like this shouldn't happen. As long as the
mails are just temporarily stored and still not deleted from the server, I
would expect a MUA to download the mails again.

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