All, I opened KMail a few minutes ago, and glancing at my inbox I saw some new messages, including one from Daimler-Chrysler (I used to lease an Intrepid). I clicked on it to have a brief look, before deleting it. As soon as I clicked, the contents flashed for a moment in the message pane and then vanished. In the inbox list, the Subject, Sender and Date changed to "No Subject Unknown Unknown". I clicked on the message immediately below, and the same thing happened. 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
* Kevin McLauchlan <kevinmcl@magma.ca> [02-13-03 22:36]:
All,
I opened KMail a few minutes ago, and glancing at my inbox I saw some new messages, including one from Daimler-Chrysler (I used to lease an Intrepid). I clicked on it to have a brief look, before deleting it. As soon as I clicked, the contents flashed for a moment in the message pane and then vanished. In the inbox list, the Subject, Sender and Date changed to "No Subject Unknown Unknown".
I clicked on the message immediately below, and the same thing happened.
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.
Close KMail, delete the index files, then reopen KMail and the files will be regenerated and should be ok. -- Patrick Shanahan http://wahoo.no-ip.org Registered Linux User #207535 icq#173753138 @ http://counter.li.org
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
On Thursday 13 February 2003 08:06 pm, Richard Atcheson wrote:
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?
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!!!!
I've never lost messages due to this oddity but have had long deleted messages mysteriously re-appear, as well as losing any message info such as replied, important, etc. in the affected folders. You (Kevin) didn't say which version of kmail you are using (apparantly 1.5), I've been told that regularly compressing your folders may reduce the possibility of this happening. I've taken to compressing my folders daily and haven't had a problem since (only a few weeks but lots of mail)
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've still lost info (Replied, Forwarded, Read, New, etc) when I've done this.
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.
I'm sure someone smarter than I will get around to it as soon as it happens to them :-) See Ya -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!
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