* ramprasad potluri
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 08:50, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
<PS> <PS> Try deleting the .*.index.* files. They will be recreaded when you <PS> restart kmail. <PS> --
I am afraid I did not follow you. What index files and where?
In your ~/mail or ~/Mail directory you will have, ie: -rw------- 1 pat users 33 2003-07-08 22:29 .drafts.index -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 33 2003-07-08 22:29 .drafts.index.ids -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 49 2003-05-23 15:20 .drafts.index.sorted -rw------- 1 pat users 33 2003-07-08 22:29 .inbox.index -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 33 2003-07-08 22:29 .inbox.index.ids -rw------- 1 pat users 33 2003-07-08 22:29 .outbox.index -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 33 2003-07-08 22:29 .outbox.index.ids -rw------- 1 pat users 1261 2003-05-23 15:20 .saved-messages.index -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 49 2003-07-08 22:29 .saved-messages.index.ids -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 161 2003-05-23 15:20 .saved-messages.index.sorted -rw------- 1 pat users 5109 2003-07-08 22:29 .sent-mail.index -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 125 2003-07-08 22:29 .sent-mail.index.ids -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 637 2003-06-25 15:28 .sent-mail.index.sorted -rw------- 1 pat users 297 2003-07-08 22:29 .trash.index -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 37 2003-07-08 22:29 .trash.index.ids -rw------- 1 pat users 0 2003-07-08 22:29 drafts -rw------- 1 pat users 2872977 2003-07-08 22:29 inbox -rw------- 1 pat users 0 2003-07-08 22:29 outbox -rw------- 1 pat users 44039 2003-05-23 15:20 saved-messages -rw------- 1 pat users 72890 2003-07-08 22:29 sent-mail -rw------- 1 pat users 2729 2003-07-08 22:29 trash The first 15 files are 'index' files. If you delete them, kmail will recreate them the next time your start it. These files were *probably* garbled when you did your *import*. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org