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Re: kmail corrupts emails [solved]



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.

The note below (from my offline TWiki-like thing) tells how to enable 
compaction on your inbox.  I now try to remember to do that several times a 
day.

regards,
Randy Kramer

---++ kmail: compact inbox disabled

   * [[http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kmail-devel/2005-June/019581.html][]]
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</pre>On Wednesday 29 June 2005 14:43, Edwin Schepers wrote:
> Hi,
> When I try to compact my inbox, I get the message that for safety reasons, 
> compaction has been disabled for inbox.
> But is there some method to do the compaction ? I have an inbox of 140M now 
> containing zero messages. I couldn't find any option. I guess `>inbox` is 
not 
> the proper way to do this.

Quit kmail (including the systray icon if you use it), open 
~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc, 
look for lines containing "Compactable=false", remove those lines, restart 
kmail.

The previous discussions on how to improve this issue didn't lead to a 
solution yet, it seems.
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