[NBLUG/talk] Bad KMail behavior

[Mark Street]

We don't know the Linux distribution or the working condition of your OS, 
whether KDE is installed correctly, etc.  Are you accessing IMAP folders?  
Pulling POP3 into your machine?  Are you using any other mail clients in 
addition to Kmail?  All we know is Kmail seems to be munching your mail or 
your mail index files.

I have been using Kmail for many years and I haven't experienced any ill 
effects as you describe during the last 4 or 5 years.  Kmail really is a nice 
client.

I use the latest, Kmail 1.6.2 included with KDE 3.2.3-6.5.1

Give mutt a whirl if you want a nice client that does just about anything you 
want from a terminal.

On Saturday 18 September 2004 22:47, icdedppl wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 September 2004 11:21 pm, Robert Hayes wrote:
> > In my experience, that is what happens when KMail has been 'killed'
> > rather than closed. The folders become corrupt, or rather, the indeces no
> > longer match the actual contents of the folder.
> > You can delete the 'no subject' emails, close kmail properly, reopen it,
> > and run File/Compact All Folders to get things tidy and tight again.
>
> Thanks for the response.  I don't recall ever killing KMail, although I
> might have once or twice.  I generally leave my machine on for weeks at a
> time. KMail runs continuously.  I tried what you suggested.  All of the "No
> Subject" emails are gone and so are all of the email messages that they
> used to be.  I read about the messed-up-index bug in an earlier version of
> KMail. Supposedly, it was fixed.

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