[NBLUG/talk] Bad KMail behavior

Robert Hayes rhayes at silcom.com
Sun Sep 19 09:28:13 PDT 2004


And for what it's worth I'm running Kmail under Enlightenment on a Debian 2.4 
box (a Dell - stop snickering) 2.2Ghz.

On Saturday 18 September 2004 10:47 pm, icdedppl wrote:
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> 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.
>
> I'd like to know how to get those messages back, if that's possible.
>
> I make hard copies of all the important stuff, every once in a while.
> Unfortunately, some good stuff was lost before I was able to print.
>
> Is their a better mail client?  Should I just rely on pine and leave the
> pretty GUIs alone?
>
> Live and learn.
>
> Thanks again.
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