Re: kmail corrupts emails [solved]
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Am Freitag, 23. September 2005 20:30 schrieb Randy Kramer:
> On Friday 23 September 2005 01:29 pm, Theo Schmidt wrote:
> > This has solved it, thanks! Kmail used to compact mailboxes on closing;
> > it looks like it no longer does so.
>
> You're welcome! But there is something else I should have mentioned--hope
> you haven't unindexed your inbox yet--
>
> on my kmail system, compaction was totally disabled "for safety
> reasons"--when I removed the index, all of a sudden I got thousands of old
> emails that had been "marked for deletion" (my words) (and no longer
> visible) but never actually deleted.
When kmail detects a corrupted mbox file for the inbox (and for any other
folder), compacting it might eat all your mail, that's the safety reasons.
Without compacting, kmail can simply ignore the corrupted parts of the mbox
file, and it still works for everything else. But a compaction will mess this
all up.
Cheers,
Reinhold
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Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna, Austria
email: reinhold@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
* Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at
* K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org/, KOrganizer maintainer
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