On Saturday 25 January 2003 07:26 pm, Graham Smith wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 19:03, David Herman wrote:
On Friday 24 January 2003 10:21 pm, David Herman wrote:
I love kmail but I'm really starting to get frustrated.
Every once in awhile Kmail will magically mark all the mail in certain folders as NEW. -------------SNIP-------------------
I've had similar problems at work. What I found is that most of the problems are associated with mbox format, which was the default for earlier Kmail (I think). So I moved all the mail over to maildir format. I'm still evaluating if this overcomes the problem.
The other thing I found helps is to compress the mail boxes regularly which I assume fixes up the indexes.
Thanks, I'll look into switching over as well as compressing the mailboxes. I'd like to mention I tried I tried Andrew's suggestion: e2fsck -f /dev/whatever or reiserfsck /dev/whatever And thankfully (but unfortunately in reguard to fixing my problem) there were no filesystem problems. I expected as much but it was worth a try. Your suggestion sounds closer to where I would expect the problem to be found, I'll need to read up on how to switch my mailbox format and try it out. Is there any functional diference I will see as a user? I've got a couple of big mailboxes ([SLE] and a couple of other lists). Thanks for the help. -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!