Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (183 mails)

[Richard Atcheson <ratcheson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 06 July 2004 02:05 pm, Bill Wisse wrote:
> Nils Kassube wrote:
> >Hi Bill,
> >
> >On Tuesday 06 July 2004 00:35, Bill Wisse wrote:
> >>Hi List
> >>
> >>What have I done to my favourite Kmail.
> >>The messages show up in the messages box but nothing shows up anymore
> >>in the so called preview pane.
> >>In the settings ---layout I have  ticked  the preview pane to show
> >>below the message list.
> >>Anybody an idea what happened here or better how i can fix this?
> >>
> >>/bill
> >
> >Maybe there is a problem with some index files in your Mail directory,
> >therefore try this:
> >
> >First close Kmail and open a shell (e.g. Konsole or xterm). Backup your
> >Mail-directory with this command in your shell:
> >
> >  cp -a ~/Mail ~/Mail.bak
> >
> >Then delete the index files:
> >
> >  rm ~/Mail/.*.index*
>
> Hi Nils
> When I try this (root) , I get,  cannot remove ~/Mail. Is a directory.
> rm: cannot remove `.*.index*': No such file or directory
>
I use Konqueror in SuperUser mode to do all this stuff.
The index files are hidden so you need to click View>hidden if you're using 
konqueror.  You dont really need to move the other folders.  just delete the 
indexes AFTER you shutdown kmail, then restart kmail, the indexes are 
rebuilt.

Sometimes a single email can really screw up the works.  If you look at the 
details view you might find one file that has different permissions or is 
unusually large.  I've had that happen twice and each time as Kmail came up 
it would appear to scan down each message and when it hit the weird message 
it would bonb, sometimes giving the no subject/ no sender appearance, and it 
would kill kmail each and everytime.  Once in desperation I simply moved the 
Mail folder somewhere else and then deleted and reinstalled Kmail to get back 
to normal.....
Richard