Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings all;
Hi Gene,
Are you send those to /dev/null? I've sent a whole bunch of them.
I do not know what you are talking about, but I recall you mentioned before you had issues with your mailbox/es.
These crashes always seem to be preceded by a couple days of a kmail session burning up a core of 4 cores, bouncing to the next available core, at 99 to 100% at 15 second or so intervals.
AFAIR you are using local MailDir with tons of mail
These seem to be related to kmail finding trash files in its database, causing problems while re-indexing. I have two folders which are subfolders with a given years messages manually sorted into that years corpus.
I recall experiencing similar with KDE3 like 12y ago. Unpleasant situation for sure!
When I relaunch kmail after one of these crashes, I am getting advisories that so-and-so has an index problem, and its generally the top level folder, and 2 or 3 of its subfolders that are named. And the older folders are slowly being emptied, as in messages are disappearing despite having no expiry set up.
Can anything be done, or is there something I can check-uncheck someplace?
I don't know exactly, but I know what solved my problems was to setup imap server between the directory structure and the client. The server where the mails are is 4cores/32GB mem, however the server is not very fast - I am not sure why - I suspect the disks are not the fastest, but I do not experience any issue with mails.
Few years ago I integrated dbmail for a customer. It is extremely fast. Think about migrating those tons of mails.
I know it is not exactly an answer, but I can not think of any other. As for kmail I have not looked into it in detail, but it is complex - one has to be able to reproduce the problem to help you find a solution.
Also are you sure nothing else is using your local Maildir? I know you have many scripts for this and that.
regards