From kmail-devel  Fri Aug 31 11:20:37 2001
From: richard () leyton ! org
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:20:37 +0000
To: kmail-devel
Subject: Bug#31889: applying kmail filter created duplicates and corrupted mailbox
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Package: kmail
Version: 1.3 (using KDE 2.2.0 )
Severity: normal
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
Compiler:          gcc 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
OS:                Linux
OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified

I setup a new filter on a rather large folder, and applied it. Kmail crashed in the process. After a restart, and attempting to reapply the filter, kmail died again reporting no disk space errors. Subsequently had difficulty getting into the folder to see what was going on.

Checked disk space, sure enough it'd run out. Odd, as I had 400Mb free earlier... On investigating I found that the Folder I was applying the filter on had grown excessively and munched all the disk space. Cranked up read-only mutt against the folder, and found that each message had been duplicated one or more times in most cases (some seemed to be on their own). typically the really large messages had been reproduced most times.

Backed up the dodgy mailbox, cranked up mutt against it, and deleted all the big duplicates, placing the "repaired" (36mb) mailbox back in place of the 400mb one. I still have a *lot* of duplicates, and am bracing myself to having to write a perl script to clear out the many many duplicates i have with the mbox module.

Mailbox is rather important, hence the  cludgy recovery. wondered if this had been seen before. happy to provide more information if possible.

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)

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