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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#37653: kmail doesn't start with big mailboxes and index files missing
From:       Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=E4ckel?= <haeckel () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-01-29 20:32:31
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On Tuesday 29 January 2002 20:13, t@inode.at wrote:
>
> kmail has strange behavior when deleting the .indoes or .sorted files,
> especially on big mailboxes, where it refuses to start (tested with 900mb
> inbox) deleting all the mailbox files doesn't make any difference, kmail
> refuses to start. after restarting kde, it will start again (when leaving
> no mailbox files in the mail folder) -- same problem, when moving the mail
> files back again.

900MB is quite huge, this might take half an hour or more to regenerate the 
index file. Maybe we really need a progress indicator for that.

> in general kmail seems to have problems with mixed mailboxes from older
> versions and mostly crashes. maybe some problem with the swapdisk, which is
> smaller than 900mb, but ram on the machine is 512mb, so that shouldn't be
> the cause

Actually KMail shouldn't read the 900MB into RAM, but you can watch this with 
for example top.

Regards,
Michael Häckel


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