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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: HELP! Crazy disk usage by KMail
From:       Espen Sand <espen.sand () neo ! no>
Date:       1999-07-30 10:48:25
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Although I have not checked lately, I think this is a known bug. 
A "simple" remedy is:

(NO WARRANTY, DO IT ON YOUR OWN RISK)

1. Move all mails in the folder to a temporary  folder.  
2. Exit kmail.
3. Truncate the file in question e.g, 'cat > "MailFolderName"'  (break the 'cat'
operation with CTRL-C). This will delete all data in a file, so be
careful. 
4. Start kmail
5. Move every message back to your folder.

(and the temporary folder is now empty, but please check its file size as well)

I do this for my "inbox" and "trash" file once in a while.


On fre, 30 jul 1999, Stefan van den Oord wrote:
>I just saw that KMail has more than 22MB of mail folders, that are
>largely empty in KMail! For example, the kde-devel folder is more
>then 9 (NINE!) megabytes, while there are just  a few messages in it.
>At least, in KMail there are; on disk it seems that every message I
>ever received is still in the folder. Compacting the folder changes
>nothing.
>
>HELP!
>
>Stefan
>

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