On Sunday 26 February 2006 21:24, John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday 26 February 2006 09:48 am, Constant Brouerius van nidek wrote:
Suddenly Kmail just vanishes of the window with the following information: KMail encountered a fatal error and will terminate now.The error was:Message could not be added to the folder, possibly disk space is low. My /home is not really empty but with still 35% to fill cannotimagine a folder of a such a big size .Ideas? Kmail runs on 9.3 with Kde 3.5. No updates of late. Onlysecurity patches.
I've had a couple emails that will choke kmail lately. Sometimes simply restarting kmail will do, other times its more difficult. I attributed it to running a slightly old kmail.
I've had to go in with a text editor and manually hack my mbox to remove the offending mail.
Its always been a virus, or an image or large binary of some form. I carefully just delete the offending item and save the mbox and it works fine.
Next time can you please file a BR at bugzilla.novell.com with the entire offending mail, headers and all attached, and assigned to me? I will carefully delete the bug out of the source code. I just fixed one of these (imap specific, so not your problem), given a mail that reproducibly crashes KMail, these bugs are relatively easy to fix. Will