Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (309 mails)

[Richard Atcheson <ratcheson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 13 February 2003 21:40, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
> I exited KMail and re-launched.
>
> The two messages still show "No Subject     Unknown    Unknown", and have
> no contents.
>
> Clicking on other messages, now, does not seem to cause the strange effect.
>
> Is this normal/expected behavior?
>
> /kevin
No Kevin it aint supposed to happen but it does and has been doing it randomly 
since KDE3.0.  
What is going on is your indexing files in your Mail folder are getting hosed.  
Whenever you see that, Kill Kmail immediately or you will lose whatever 
messages have changed to the no subject!!!!

Then go to the Mail folder, mine is in /home/richard/Mail,  and delete ALL the 
index files, they are the ones which end with .index or .index.ids. They may 
be hidden files. I thought they weren't on previous versions of Kmail but on 
ver 1.5 they are.   For a while I followed the ritual of keeping copies but 
now I simply delete all the index files and then restart Kmail.  

I sure wish someone would figure out what is causing the problem and fix it.  
But until that happens, you need to be on guard for this to happen 
periodically.

Richard