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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    [kdepim-users] Auto-Discarded message ?
From:       Jean-Philippe Monteiro <joaophilippe.mb.monteiro () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-11-15 3:50:14
Message-ID: 200611151050.15375.joaophilippe.mb.monteiro () gmail ! com
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Hi from Cambodia!

This is a frightening one:

I can see from my severely restricted Monthly MB Allowance Scheme (250mb for 
100USD a month! www.telesurf.com.kh) that I downloaded several times the two 
6mb files a colleague sent me yesterday. These files sits in my webmail gmail 
account, but do not shows up in my inbox, neither as spam (this colleague is 
"registered" as a Non-Spam Sender) or trash can.

Even worse, I can see (given the slow connection here) that I am downloading 
these files again & again repetitively, eating up my 250mb allowance very 
fast, without errors & without showing up !

The only fault I can spot here is that she either misnamed/forgot to name the 
file (a scan of important paper I needed), and it appeared on gmail with an 
"UNKNOWN_PARAMETER_VALUE" title, successfully declared "Clean of Virus" by 
gmail system. Manually downloaded (aaarg this 250mb limit...), the file 
appears to be a .TIFF, somehow corrupted (bottom of page dead, not the actual 
scan).

I won't flame anything or anybody, but given my budget constraints, slow 
connection & real duties with important outcomes for real people, I hope 
someone can drive me through a hint that does not involve the usual "get the 
latest code & compile", thanks (I can't compile, it's beyond my capacities, 
it has never worked for me). I know my version is pretty old.

Where could this hide ? I checked the Kmail trash & SuSE trash cans, & the 
full /.kde/share/apps/kmail tree. Is Kmail featuring an "Erase Strange Stuff" 
routine ? How does it handles what it considers Dead/Corrupted/Malicious 
files ?

Background info: I work for an NGO in cambodia featuring, among others, a 
circus school. While I am in the capital city with a 64kbps adsl, the 
organisation is quite deep in the province (5.5 hours away) with an even 
worse internet access (2 hours every three days, more or less, dial-up...)
My OS is otherwise stable, updated for security but not necessarily for 
anything else.

cheers.

jean-philippe

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SuSE93 Linux Kernell 2.6.11.4-21.14 KDE 3.4.0 Kontact 1.1 Kmail 1.8
PHNOM PENH - CAMBODIA
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