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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    [kdepim-users] Re: Disappearing mail
From:       David P James <dpjames () rogers ! com>
Date:       2005-01-14 1:28:39
Message-ID: 200501132028.41640.dpjames () rogers ! com
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On Sat 8 January 2005 14:53, Chris Nicol wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have just changed from Evolution to Kmail. I find Evolution is
> getting slower, less practical, and more and more corporate-oriented.
> I'm very pleased with Kontact and feel it has really improved and
> come of age.
>
> But I have a problem with my incoming mail. Some of it disappears
> when I select it. I click on the message and all details disappear.
> Instead, I am left with an empty message with "No Subject", sender:
> "Unknown" and Date: Jan 1 1970. This happens with only some of the
> messages.  Any idea why?

This can happen if your /tmp partition fills up. And it just so happens 
that there is a bug with kate (as well as anything that uses it like 
Quanta) that fills up /tmp at a rate of something like 400+kB/character 
typed.


>
> And Kontact just stops responding for 20-30 seconds. I don't know
> why. Admittedly the laptop is an old Vaio PIII at 450MHz but it is
> still strange that it should be so slow at times.

Sounds like the same problem of /tmp filling up.


Regards,
-- 
David P James
Ottawa, Ontario
http://david.jamesnet.ca
ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: davidpjames@jabber.org

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