Re: [suse-kde] KMAIL - ooohhh this is really starting to...
On Sunday 26 January 2003 02:07 am, Matt Gibson wrote:
On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 06:21, David Herman wrote:
Every once in awhile Kmail will magically mark all the mail in certain folders as NEW. That wouldn't be a big problem except I spend a fair [rest of description *snipped*]
This seems very strange. I've got plenty of folders which I save old mail in, too, and I've been using KMail for about a year, and never seen the problem you describe. Maybe it's something configuration-related rather than just a simple bug.
Well it's not a common ocurrance, but when it happens it affects all the messages in numerous folders. Thinking about it today, it came to me that only folders that get mail deposited directly - or filtered to them seem to be affected. ( I haven't had a chance to confirm this yet)
How do you receive your mail? Do you point KMail at a local mailbox, or grab it with POP or IMAP? If it's a local mailbox, what locking system do you use?
POP. I do have alot of filters and seperate folders that my mail gets sorted into. (I'm afraid I haven't spent alot of time learning about filters so I'm sure they could be set up better)
Oh, and of course, what versions of stuff are you using? I'm using the KMail 1.4.3 under KDE 3.0.4 (straight from the SuSE RPMs) on SuSE 7.2...
Currently SuSE 8.1pro, kernel 2.4.19-115 with win4lin patches (self compiled but w/ few changes other than the patches), KDE 3.0.5, Kmail 1.4.3. The machine is only 2 months old and SuSE was freshly installed about 3 weeks ago. Its been upgraded w/yast originally and now is kept up to date w/ apt. (I do remember having a similar (or perhaps the same) problem (mail coming back from the dead) on a completely diferent machine running SuSE 7.2 and kde 2.2.2 last year. Don't know if this helps at all but I think the filter/incoming folders thing might be a lead. I'm trying Graham's idea of compressing my mailboxes regularly, hopefully that will do the trick Thanks for your reply -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!
On Sunday 26 January 2003 02:55 am, David Herman wrote:
I'm trying Graham's idea of compressing my mailboxes regularly, hopefully that will do the trick
So far this seems to be working, What I'm wondering now is if I could cause the folders to be compressed automatically (as a cron job). I know that kmail can compress the folders automatically when I exit, but, I'm kind of used to just leaving it active all the time. It just bugs me that I have to remember to compress my folders every couple of days or risk index problems. -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!
* David Herman (ob1@yifan.net) [030128 14:15]: ->On Sunday 26 January 2003 02:55 am, David Herman wrote: -> -> ->> I'm trying Graham's idea of compressing my mailboxes regularly, ->> hopefully that will do the trick -> ->So far this seems to be working, -> ->What I'm wondering now is if I could cause the folders to be compressed ->automatically (as a cron job). I know that kmail can compress the ->folders automatically when I exit, but, I'm kind of used to just ->leaving it active all the time. It just bugs me that I have to remember ->to compress my folders every couple of days or risk index problems. I noticed that KMail 1.5 which is the version that comes with KDE 3.1 has a setting to compress at regular intervolts. This may or may not be a good reason to upgrade. KMail in 3.1 seems nice for a GUI mailer. Check it out..see what you think. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 02:17 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
I noticed that KMail 1.5 which is the version that comes with KDE 3.1 has a setting to compress at regular intervolts. This may or may not be a good reason to upgrade. KMail in 3.1 seems nice for a GUI mailer. Check it out..see what you think.
I would love to, I'm hoping it will fix some problems I've had w/ konqueror as well. I've seen the few remarks so far on the [SLE] list and read the readme @ kde.org (ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.1/SuSE/ix86/8.1/README) So It seems that I need to dload all of the rpms ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.1/SuSE/ix86/8.1/ (looks like i'll be ready in about 3 hours ) Actually I just tracked down a faster mirror. and then run the commands: (as root) rpm -Uvh libart_lgpl*rpm rpm -Fvh *rpm Is this correct? Is there more/less that I need to dload? -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!
* David Herman (ob1@yifan.net) [030128 15:10]: ->On Tuesday 28 January 2003 02:17 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote: -> ->> ->> I noticed that KMail 1.5 which is the version that comes with KDE 3.1 ->> has a setting to compress at regular intervolts. This may or may not ->> be a good reason to upgrade. KMail in 3.1 seems nice for a GUI ->> mailer. Check it out..see what you think. -> ->I would love to, ->I'm hoping it will fix some problems I've had w/ konqueror as well. -> ->I've seen the few remarks so far on the [SLE] list and read the readme @ ->kde.org (ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.1/SuSE/ix86/8.1/README) -> ->So It seems that I need to dload all of the rpms ->ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.1/SuSE/ix86/8.1/ ->(looks like i'll be ready in about 3 hours ) ->Actually I just tracked down a faster mirror. ->and then run the commands: -> ->(as root) ->rpm -Uvh libart_lgpl*rpm ->rpm -Fvh *rpm -> ->Is this correct? Is there more/less that I need to dload? Yep. Tis what I did. Although I didn't do "rpm -Uvh libart_lgpl*rpm" because I didn't need to. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 03:47 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* David Herman (ob1@yifan.net) [030128 15:10]: ->On Tuesday 28 January 2003 02:17 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote: -> ->> ->> I noticed that KMail 1.5 which is the version that comes with KDE 3.1 ->> has a setting to compress at regular intervolts. This may or may not ->> be a good reason to upgrade. KMail in 3.1 seems nice for a GUI ->> mailer. Check it out..see what you think.
Well I took the leap. each kde upgrade seems to bring disappointments (which often lose importance) along with advances. (see my next post) kmail does seem to be compressing the indexes on a regular basis now, but I haven't seen the location for setting frequency. Is this coded in or have you found the setting? -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!
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