15 Oct
2019
15 Oct
'19
5:45 p.m.
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