On Saturday 25 January 2003 02:37 am, Andrew Williams wrote:

David Herman wrote:

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On Friday 24 January 2003 10:21 pm, David Herman wrote:

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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.

-------------SNIP------------------- I haven't done much (any?) linux scripting but this seems like something that a script run by cron might allow me to work around. I don't want to backup the whole Mail folder every 1/2 hour (I don't seem to be losing mails) but the *.index, *.index.ids and *.index sorted files would sure be handy.

I'm open to suggestion ;-)

The obvious suggestion (it happened to me . . . ) is that there could be some corruption on your /home directory. I have /home as a separate partition and occasionally go to runlevel 1, unmount it and then either: e2fsck -f /dev/whatever or reiserfsck /dev/whatever

Sorry if this is obvious, but sometimes the obvious things are the ones to try.

Thanks (wasn't obvious to me :-) It was a totally clean install about 3 weeks ago, w/no crashes since and only a few reboots so I'm not sure what would have caused the corruption, but I'll give it a shot. Thanks again -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!