Bug#291012: kmail: Another index problem: Message header values and thread sorting is mixed with totally other mails
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 03:19 am, Gerhard Brauer wrote:
> Package: kmail
> Version: 4:3.3.1-3
> Severity: important
>
>
> I use kmail to read mail from an local imap server (uw-imapd), the
> format is mbox. Over night there is an archiving/deleting job on the
> server which deletes some mails from the mbox folder.
>
> If i get new mail and open such an folder with kmail, the information
> about sender,subject,date and content is first shown correctly and well
> sorted by thread. If i select then a new (or old) mail, the
> sender,subject...and content of this message is from an totally other
> mail which is probably from an total other thread.
I only ever delete mail from within Kmail itself, so I haven't run into this.
My wife occasionally uses a webmail interface to our imap accounts, though,
and she does have this happen at times.
> This must be an index problem. I used kmail sometimes from kde 3.2 and i
> think this problem (for me) is new in kde 3.3. The version from 3.2 ex.
> does a "Cleaning" after exiting kmail. The new version don't do this
> AFAIK.
I had turned this option off, so I didn't notice that it seems to have
disappeared in 3.3.
> With this bug kmail for me is useless while the only way to fix this
> problem is to recreate the local cache, so i lost some important settings
> for folders.
Does selecting the "File -> Refresh Local IMAP Cache" menu item fix things for
you?
What does "Compact All Folders" do to IMAP folders? I'm afraid to try it.
Josh
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