Re: Upgraded to 2.2 - mail now broken

[Stephan Jaensch <sjaensch@gmx.net>]

On Thursday 15 November 2001 22:48, derekgladding@speakeasy.net wrote:

> Being a complete coward, I waited on my 2.2 upgrade until it appeared in
> testing. Yesterday, I joyously upgraded and sat back to enjoy the wonders
> that I had been hearing about on this list.
>
> Unfortunately my mail (in kmail) seems now to be broken. All new mail is
> reported as "No Subject" "Unknown "Wed Dec 31 15:59:59 1969"
>
> Is this a known problem ? Have I done something stupid ?

There are hidden .index - files in your mail directory. The filenames are 
.<folder-name>.index, e.g. .inbox.index, .drafts.index and so on. Deleting 
these worked for me. But be sure to back up that directory before messing 
with any files in it.

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Ciao...