Re: Upgraded to 2.2 - mail now broken
On Thursday 15 November 2001 01:56 pm, you wrote:
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> 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.
Stephan, thanks for the response.
Even weirder ...
I tried deleting the .index files as you suggested, then checked my mail
again. Eight messages arrived, seven of them were still broken but yours
came through correctly. Bizarre or what ?
- Derek
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