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Re: KMail Breaks

  • Subject: Re: KMail Breaks
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:07:27 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.kde
  • References: <d2vhqk$1e8b$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk> <moaci2-mt3.ln1@codewave.demon.co.uk> <d30pq4$2oib$2@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk> <iZC6e.17253$1p4.5373@trndny06>
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Mike Gratis wrote:

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Matt Gibson wrote:
>> 
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Can anyone suggest ways of returning KMail back to sanity? I can afford
>>>> to lose the folders, but not the settings... KDE 3.1, KMail 0.7.2.
>>> 
>>> Sounds like your indexes are screwed.  Shut KMail, go into your Mail
>>> directory, and delete the ".<folder name>.index" file for the folders.
>>> Bear in mind those will be hidden files.
>>> 
>>> Just try it on one first to see if it cures the problem for that folder.
>>> You
>>> won't lose any mail by doing this.  Not unless you delete the wrong
>>> file, anyway ;-)
>>> 
>>> M
>> 
>> Thanks Matt,
>> 
>> It sounds like it could be exactly it. I have given it a shot (rm
>> .*.index) and I will soon know if it works.
>> 
>> Roy
>> 
> 
> I prefer to rename files (...like to *.index.old) - That way if that's not
> the problem, or doing so causes even more/worse problems, I can rename the
> file back and still have it to work with.   ;-)

Good point. I did not mind breakage because I only use this machine to view
my mail; I archive it elsewhere.

Speaking of which, erasing the indices did not work. Things were okay for a
few days, but I still get the same garbage displaying on occasions and
sometimes I cannot send messages.

I might just shift to Thunderbird soon. I use it in two other places
already, but I'm just reluctant to customise it again.

Roy

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Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com

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