Re: kmail: corrupted mbox folders
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.
> In the ~/Mail directory I've found some binary files aside the mbox file.
> Example:
> -rw------- 1 michael michael 4285097 12. Sep 14:50 GMX
> drwx--S--- 2 michael michael 4096 29. Dez 2001 .GMX.directory
> -rw------- 1 michael michael 1237 12. Sep 14:50 .GMX.index
> -rw-r--r-- 1 michael michael 89 12. Sep 14:50 .GMX.index.ids
> -rw-r--r-- 1 michael michael 441 12. Sep 14:50 .GMX.index.sorted
>
> How can I get out of this??
Delete the index files. Kmail will recreate these files automatically. As you
have noticed with mutt, all deleted mails are still in the mbox file and
these mails are now visible. Delete them again and compress the folder to
delete them physically.
regards,
Jörg
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