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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KMail problems
From:       Damien Uern <morpheus_2606 () internode ! on ! net>
Date:       2004-06-24 12:54:25
Message-ID: 200406242212.33285.morpheus_2606 () internode ! on ! net
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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:43 pm, Zé wrote:
> Em Quinta, 24 de Junho de 2004 09:19, o Damien Uern escreveu:
> > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:54 am, Zé wrote:
> > > Kmail have a major bug.
> > > I discussed this bug in kde@mail.kde.org but no one could find a
> > > solution. Kmail display many emails from for example mozillazine.org
> > > also from www.linuxquestions.org, display these emails as blank emails.
> > > only when i click to see the code, is that you can see something.
> > > So i tried many things to see if i could put kmail displaying these
> > > emails correctly, so i chooseed using a maildir folder instead of an
> > > mbox, deleted the .index files to rebuild again by kmail, deleted the
> > > ~/.Mail dir, compiled kmail without the patch (Mandrake patch) that
> > > moves the messages to the folder ~/Mail, because Mandrake uses the
> > > ~/.Mail instead of the folder ~/Mail.
> > > I reinstalled Mandrake 10.0 in english cause it woud have something
> > > related with the locale (language) settings, but no, nothing resolved.
> > > kmail continues displaying many emails as blank emails.
> > > I think that i tried everything possible to put kmail working
> > > correctly. I even compiled the kde-3.2.3 to see if was a Mandrake
> > > problem, but the conclusion is that, is a kde/kmail bug.
> > > I am trying about almost a month to see if i can fix this...
> > >
> > > I dont know more what to do, so i ask to the developers to see the code
> > > or whatever is wrong.
> > >
> > > my regards,
> > > Zé
> > >
> > > PS: here i attach the lasty email i received that kmail displayed it as
> > > a blank email, and this same email was well displayed in Evolution
> >
> > This may not be your problem, but I had a similar issue when I upgraded
> > from Mandrake 9.2 to Mandrake 10. It seems that Kmail < 1.6.x was
> > incorrectly naming some of the mail files (i.e. not correctly in maildir
> > format), but seemed to pick up and read those incorrectly named files
> > fine. 1.6.x must've fixed the bug, because even though it indexed them
> > okay, when I clicked on the mail, it was blank with no subject and no
> > sender with unknown date.
> >
> > I wrote a few scripts to rename all the misnamed files, and to set the
> > permissions on them correctly (some were executeable for some reason, and
> > kmail didn't like this). And then all was well. Weird bug though.
> >
> > Damien
>
> Yes, all started when i installed Mandrake10.0, because in Mandrake9.2
> kmail was displaying well all emails.
> Can you tell me how did you fixed it?
>

Read this:

http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html

Then go into your ~/.Mail directory and delete the indexes. Then go into your 
various blah/cur directories and make sure that all the names of files are 
CORRECTLY in maildir format as per that website. Also make sure everything 
has the correct permissions (no executeable ones).

Then load kmail and let it build the indexes. That's all I did, and it's 
worked fine ever since.

Cheers,

Damien

P.S: an example of an incorrect filename I had was like this:

1088063889.2804.BHGBh_2,S:2,S

for some reason and underscore was used instead of a colon. Kmail tacked an 
extra :2,S on it not realising the filename was malformed. The filename 
should be changed to (in this example):

1088063889.2804.BHGBh:2,S

- -- 
 "Look at that five o'clock rust. You've been up all night not drinking,
haven't you?" -Leela
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