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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] kmail, losing emails "Help"
From:       Thomas Beinicke <merlin.linux () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-05-26 7:41:11
Message-ID: 200705260941.15758.merlin.linux () gmail ! com
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On Friday 25 May 2007 20:35:34 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 25 May 2007, Rick wrote:
> > it would appear, there something gone wrong with kmail,
> > its losing email, when click on a email, and any folder, some of them,
> > will change from "Whatever subject message" to "No Subject", and be
> > blank.
> >
> > this is very odd....
> >
> > ie: subject: "kubuntu feisty update": when click on that email it would
> > change it to: ie: NO SUBUJECT and be blank ???
> >
> > Anyone?
>
> Yes - don't click on any more.  Any that you've opened like that are
> probably lost.  It is almost always caused by corrupted index files.

I did encounter the same problem before. In kmail it just showed as blank mail 
with no subject but when I opened it in Thunderbird the mail was still there 
with all it's content but it wasn't cached in thunderbird (I am using an imap 
server though).

>
> Find the directory that is affected, and delete the index files.  If your
> Inbox is affected, delete any file that has Inbox and index in the name -
> probably Inbox.index and Inbox.index.ids.
>
> Close KMail, then re-open it.  The index files will be re-created.
>
> Anne



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