I noticed a couple of messages as I was deleting some messages in my SLE folder. Subject = No subject Sender = Unknown Date (Order of Arrival) = unknown The first two I opened and they were totally empty. I clicked on a message with the subject = Re: [SLE] Gnome/Gimp question. I did not notice the sender or date. As soon as I clicked on the message to open it, it changed to - No Subject, Unknown, unknown. Other messages open normally. There is one showing with the subject - Re: [SLE] Gnome/Gimp question. Sender - Graham Smith. Date - Yesterday 16:49:35 I will now try opening it! Exactly the sake result, No Subject etc. Just looked in the trash folder and there are four messages all dated yesterday and with the subject - Gnome/Gimp question All four are normal messages with sender, date, content etc. Suse 8.1 KDE 3.0.4 Nothing exotic or unusual installed. Would someone be kind enough to tell me what I am doing, or have done, wrong. Many Thanks, Malcolm Leatherby
Hi This sometimes happens, if KDE crashes, or Kmail is exited in "not-normal" way, ie. crash or pressing the "x", and not go thru the "file->exit" Old messages that has been removed/trashed, has still their index there, so Kmail thinks it is a valid message, but when activating the message, the body is not there, thus you get the changed headers etc... Jaska. Viestissä Tiistai 19. Marraskuuta 2002 18:51, malcolm kirjoitti:
I noticed a couple of messages as I was deleting some messages in my SLE folder. Subject = No subject Sender = Unknown Date (Order of Arrival) = unknown
The first two I opened and they were totally empty.
I clicked on a message with the subject = Re: [SLE] Gnome/Gimp question.
I did not notice the sender or date.
As soon as I clicked on the message to open it, it changed to - No Subject, Unknown, unknown.
Other messages open normally.
There is one showing with the subject - Re: [SLE] Gnome/Gimp question. Sender - Graham Smith. Date - Yesterday 16:49:35
I will now try opening it!
Exactly the sake result, No Subject etc.
Just looked in the trash folder and there are four messages all dated yesterday and with the subject - Gnome/Gimp question All four are normal messages with sender, date, content etc.
Suse 8.1 KDE 3.0.4 Nothing exotic or unusual installed.
Would someone be kind enough to tell me what I am doing, or have done, wrong.
Many Thanks,
Malcolm Leatherby
Hi
This sometimes happens, if KDE crashes, or Kmail is exited in "not-normal" way, ie. crash or pressing the "x", and not go thru the "file->exit"
Old messages that has been removed/trashed, has still their index there, so Kmail thinks it is a valid message, but when activating the message, the
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 11:07 am, jaakko tamminen wrote: body
is not there, thus you get the changed headers etc...
Jaska. It also happens at random! It has happened to me on many occasions. I leave kmail running and sometimes when I am reading the mail the next message I click on becomes no subject but the size of the unknown message remains the same as the original message. If I tab or click on down the llist each subsequent message becomes no subject, etc.
I finally gave up figureing out what the cause is and simply follow the advice to delete the .index files and restart kmail. It will then work fine til the next time. I sure wish someone could figure out what the problem really is. interestingly , I did not have that problem until a later upgrade of kde. My advice to whomever may experience this problem is to shutdown kmail when it happens and delete the *.index files in your Mail folder, then restart Kmail and wait for the next time. Someday someone will fix the problem.. Regards, Richard
The 02.11.19 at 21:32, Richard wrote:
It also happens at random! It has happened to me on many occasions. I leave kmail running and sometimes when I am reading the mail the next message I click on becomes no subject but the size of the unknown message remains the same as the original message. If I tab or click on down the llist each subsequent message becomes no subject, etc.
How do you fetch your mail? Do you use fetchmail? That could happen if some other program writes to the folder. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Dear Malcolm, You may have had a sys hang or power glitch. On my systems when this happens KMail gets confused and its index files get mixed up. 1. Shutdown KMail 2.Go to your {home} directory then to the "Mail" directory, note upper case M, and delete the files there that end in .index; there are probably several. ex. mine has a .inbox.index file. Caution: If you use Konqi of other GUI File Mgr you may need to enable "Show hidden files" since the index files are normally hidden (they start with a dot ). 3. Restart KMail Let us know how it works ................... PeterB p.s. my dir is /home/peterb/Mail On Tuesday 19 November 2002 10:51 am, malcolm wrote:
I noticed a couple of messages as I was deleting some messages in my SLE folder. Subject = No subject Sender = Unknown Date (Order of Arrival) = unknown
The first two I opened and they were totally empty.
I clicked on a message with the subject = Re: [SLE] Gnome/Gimp question.
I did not notice the sender or date.
As soon as I clicked on the message to open it, it changed to - No Subject, Unknown, unknown.
Other messages open normally.
There is one showing with the subject - Re: [SLE] Gnome/Gimp question. Sender - Graham Smith. Date - Yesterday 16:49:35
I will now try opening it!
Exactly the sake result, No Subject etc.
Just looked in the trash folder and there are four messages all dated yesterday and with the subject - Gnome/Gimp question All four are normal messages with sender, date, content etc.
Suse 8.1 KDE 3.0.4 Nothing exotic or unusual installed.
Would someone be kind enough to tell me what I am doing, or have done, wrong.
Many Thanks,
Malcolm Leatherby
-- -- Proud to be a SuSE Linux User since 5.2 --
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 11:51, malcolm wrote:
I noticed a couple of messages as I was deleting some messages in my SLE folder. Subject = No subject Sender = Unknown Date (Order of Arrival) = unknown
The first two I opened and they were totally empty. Suse 8.1 KDE 3.0.4 Nothing exotic or unusual installed.
Would someone be kind enough to tell me what I am doing, or have done, wrong.
Many Thanks,
Malcolm Leatherby
Hi Malcolm, Have you been testing another email client? Pine in its default, for an example, uses the same format and directory as kmail. I noticed, when playing around with pine, it would leave strange emails in kmail with the same behavior that you describe. If that's the case than you didn't do anything at all out of the ordinary or destructive to your system. hth, Ken
The 02.11.19 at 17:31, Ken Phelan wrote:
Have you been testing another email client? Pine in its default, for an example, uses the same format and directory as kmail. I noticed, when playing around with pine, it would leave strange emails in kmail with the same behavior that you describe.
Yes, but that message is not empty. It is used by pine for storing flags such as new/unread/important, etc. Ie, the index. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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