[Leaplist] kmail crashes

[Mark W. Alexander]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:57:42AM -0500, Dan Cherry wrote:
> Hi,
> Have any of you who use kmail, run into this?
> When accessing an IMAP server, kmail will display a message the first time 
> it's opened, but will occasionally display a blank body on subsequent 
> attempts to read the same email.  Once this happens, kmail will crash if I 
> try to move or delete the message.
> The really weird part, is I can go to another computer, and kmail will open 
> and display the same message with no problems at all (hinting that IMAP mail 
> is okay).
> The machines are currently running Ubuntu gutsy and feisty, but I've had the 
> same problems with pclinuxos, as well, so it seems to be a kmail/kontact 
> problem.
> Any thoughts?
> thanks,

KMail keeps it's IMAP metadata in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/imap. There's a
.NNNNNNN.directory/ for each IMAP account with files like FOLDER,
.FOLDER.directory, .FOLDER.index, .FOLDER.ids and .FOLDER.index.sorted. I
suspect that one or more of these got toasted on the client you're having
problems with. If you remove the set of files related to the folder with the
problem, it will rebuild them the next time you connect.

mwa
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