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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [rnapier@employees.org: kmail crash on unicode]
From:       Rob Napier <rnapier () employees ! org>
Date:       2001-05-02 13:12:13
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Nuking the index file fixed the trouble. Thanks.

As a user, I'd want kmail to catch its own exception in this case and
rebuild its index file if it's corrupt. I assume the problem is that
kmail is too trusting of its index file, and should probably be
reading it more incredulously.

Thanks,
Rob

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:04:35PM +0200, Ingo Kl?cker wrote:
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> On Monday, 30. April 2001 04:29, Rob Napier wrote:
> > When my wife tries to open one of her mailboxes, she consitently gets
> > the following crash (other mailboxes are fine; moving a message to
> > the mailbox illicits exactly the same problem). Please ignore the
> > "qt-2.2.0". It really is qt-2.3.0 (built from the current qt-copy).
> > This is off of the latest alpha label, but not tip (the problem
> > existed before, however). If necessary, I can rebuild to tip, but I'm
> > trying to keep this particular machine at "known" versions (since
> > it's my wife's box).
> >
> > If necessary, I can provide the mailbox in question. It's about 2M
> > uncompressed and .5M compressed, so I'd put it up on an ftp site if
> > anyone needs it.
> 
> Please try if deleting the index file for this folder helps. If the 
> folder is for example called "foo" it's index file is called 
> ".foo.index". Please make a backup of the index file before deleting it.
> 
> If this doesn't help, providing the mailbox file and the index file for 
> the buggy folder might help us to track down the cause for the crash.
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