Hi, this is just a reminder of the warning I sent already some month ago (now= =20 we recommend to update to KDE 2.2 of course, not KDE 2.1). regards Daniel Naber ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: KMail - Important announcement for users of KMail 1.0.x / KDE 1.= x Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 01:02:17 +0200 From: Daniel Naber To: info@suse.de, wish@linux-mandrake.com, info@redhat.com,=20 support@turbolinux.com Cc: feedback@linux.com, lwn@lwn.net, jgowin@linuxorbit.com,=20 editors@linuxtoday.com, dot@kdenews.org [Please help to spread this information and take appropriate actions if you or your customers are affected] KMail - Important announcement for users of KMail 1.0.x / KDE 1.x Old versions of KMail will stop working correctly on September 9, 2001. O= n that date, a number overflow may cause KMail mail folders to be corrupted when using KMail version < 1.0.29.1. If you are using version 1.0.29.1 or 1.0.29.2, the dates of new mails will not be shown correctly anymore, but no mail will be lost. This is actually the problem raised by the passage of one billion seconds since the beginning of the Unix epoch at 00:00 on 1 January 1970. The affected versions of KMail were part of KDE 1.x which, though replace= d by KDE 2.x, remain part of distributions still on sale and part of many users' desktops. What to do? We recommend that users update to KDE 2.1, which includes KMail 1.2. This version has many other bugs fixed and contains many new features. The new version of KMail will use old mail files without problems. However, once the new version is installed one should not switch back to the old version because of changes in the index files and configuration file. Just to be sure, we recommend that users make a backup of their mai= l folder (~/Mail) and compress all folders before switching to the new version. This announcement is also available at http://kmail.kde.org/bug.html -- Daniel Naber, Paul-Gerhardt-Str. 2, 33332 Guetersloh, Germany ------------------------------------------------------- --=20 Daniel Naber, Paul-Gerhardt-Str. 2, 33332 Guetersloh, Germany http://www.danielnaber.de _______________________________________________ Kmail Developers mailing list Kmail@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmail