From kmail-devel  Sat Aug 31 06:51:28 2002
From: Paijmans <paai () kub ! nl>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 06:51:28 +0000
To: kmail-devel
Subject: Bug#47207: deleted emails stay in inbox even with Compactable=true
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kmail-devel&m=103077745032053

On Friday 30 August 2002 21:49, Ingo Klöcker wrote:

...

> > > > because kmail keeps changing the settings). But wherever and
> > > > however I delete messages (and click File->compact), the deleted
> > > > messages stay in the inbox and appear again after a few days.
> > > > This is frustrating, to say the least.
> > >
> > > Do you also copy the index files, i.e. .inbox.index*? If not, then
> > > it's not surprising that deleted messages reappear because KMail
> > > will recreate them each time after you overwrite the inbox with a
> > > copy.
> >
> > Aha, das koennte es sein. Aber woher holt dieser index dann seinen
> > Text? Der .inbox.index Datei ist doch keinen Kopie von inbox?
>
> The index file contains the subject, the date, the sender, the
> receiver(s) and some more header fields of each message. Furthermore
> the message status, i.e. read, replied, important, deleted, etc., is
> stored in the index file.
>
> When KMail notices that the index file and the mailbox file (in your
> case the inbox) are out of sync then KMail regenerates the index file
> from the contents of the mailbox file.

We are talking in circles here, because I wanted to get rid of the
deleted emails in the mailbox in the first place. In the meantime I dl'd 
and installed KDE 3.0.3 and in the next week I will synchronize 
between my two workplaces taking also the .inbox.index file with
me and see what happens.

If the problems persevere, I will mail again.

Thanks.

Paai

-- 
Dr. J.J. Paijmans
www.paijmans.net



Paai


(Complete bug history is available at http://bugs.kde.org/db/47/47207.html)
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