On Saturday 25 January 2003 01:21, David Herman wrote:
I love kmail but I'm really starting to get frustrated.
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 amount of time Marking messages that I find particularly fascinating as "Important". When kmail marks all the messages as new then it is easy to change the status of all messages to "Read" but I lose the visual cue I so lovingly created.
Another curious effect: occasionally long deleted messages are returned to their orriginal folder (I empty the trash frequently and actually quit the program in hopes of preventing this).
Kmail is not marking the mail in all folders as new, it seems to me that it is only doing this to folders that recieve unread mail (ie my filters send the incoming mail to the desired folder before I read it)
I can't offer any help on getting messed stuff back to proper state, but I have a thought about the problems you report. You didn't specify your SuSE version. I was having problems with KMail and other X stuff under SuSE 8.0, and finally a whole bunch of things went blooie, and I used WindowMaker for several months, with Sylpheed as my mail program. Sylpheed began giving exactly the problems you describe, with the addition that sometimes whole folders would get marked as read, before I could get to them. All the other symptoms showed up, too. It was usable, but really annoying and inconvenient. After I upgraded (well, it was a complete fresh install) to 8.1, I got back to KMail, and there have been no problems with it, at all. I did have some nasty X problems (47 crashes in three months), but I loaded a kernel update package from SuSE last week and the system has been rock-steady since then. All that to say: if you haven't gone to 8.1, yet.... do it. :-) And then IMMEDIATELY update the kernel (whether it's to k_deflt2.4.19.174 or k_athlon-2.4.19.167 (for Intel and AMD processors respectively). A remote possibility, perhaps, but if you don't hear any better suggestions... ;-> Good luck. /kevin