Reading kmail's Mail/ with other MUAs (was: Re: kmail: corrupted mbox folders)
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On Thursday 12 September 2002 16:17, Joerg Platte wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 12. September 2002 14:59 schrieb Michael Schmitz:
> > My actual problem is as follows:
> > If I click on a mail in a mbox folder it's going corrupted imediately.
> > Subject, sender etc. changes to 'unknown' and the messages seems to be a
> > mixture of more than one mail.
>
> I've had the same problem before switching all mboxes to maildirs.
>
> > Using mutt, I can read the folders with no problem. But I've recognized
> > that all old mails which I've deleted via Kmail are still there.
>
> That's the problem. Don't read mailboxes with other programs than kmail. If
> this program modifies the mbox, kmails index files are invalid.
This situation occured to me recently. Is there a known/recommended way to use
multiple MUA's, where kmail is the primary agent? I have kmail set up to use
maildir, but as you say, other agents corrupt/invalidate the indexes.
Is it a matter of deleting the index before running kmail and compressing the
folders whewn closing kmail?
Paul Cupis
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paul@cupis.co.uk
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