From kdepim-users  Sat May 26 16:21:16 2007
From: Rick <cms0009 () gmail ! com>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 16:21:16 +0000
To: kdepim-users
Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] kmail, losing emails "Help"
Message-Id: <200705261221.16775.cms0009 () gmail ! com>
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On Saturday 26 May 2007 3:41:11 am Thomas Beinicke wrote:
> 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

Thats seems to be the problem with kmail, it lacks a unified backend database,
that can do it own indexing on the fly...(sqlite? )

well, hopefully kde 4 would have some fixes for these problems, since,
they are moving towards a unified backend database.

Richard
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