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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Bug#31889: applying kmail filter created duplicates and corrupted mailbox
From:       richard () leyton ! org
Date:       2001-08-31 11:20:37
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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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