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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KMail problems
From:       Zé <mmodem00 () netvisao ! pt>
Date:       2004-06-24 13:33:05
Message-ID: 200406241433.05617.mmodem00 () netvisao ! pt
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Em Quinta, 24 de Junho de 2004 13:42, o Damien Uern escreveu:
> 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

Thats not the problem, i already did tried that.
Already did deleted all .index filex and runed kmail to rebuild files, and 
there isnt any file badly named.

The problem is how kmail retrieves and saves messages in disk.
 
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