27 Nov
2018
27 Nov
'18
1:01 a.m.
greets, folks . . .
is there a reliable, nondestructive way to force kmail to reindex a mail
subdirectory?
thanks.
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27 Nov
27 Nov
11:44 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] forcing a kmail reindex
Am Dienstag, 27. November 2018 schrieb dep:
greets, folks . . .
is there a reliable, nondestructive way to force kmail to reindex a mail
subdirectory?
thanks.
Yes, just delete the index files *.index *.index.ids *.index.sorted. When you restart
kmail, it'll rebuild the indices. If you want to be on the save side, create a copy of
your mail folder and then delete the indices ...
Nik
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7:06 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] forcing a kmail reindex
On Tuesday 27 November 2018 05:44:56 am Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Dienstag, 27. November 2018 schrieb dep:
Ah, probably goes without saying, but KMail seems really twitchy during start
up when rebuilding (or loading?) its indexes. Basically check top to see if
it's finished. On my system it'll suck up a full CPU for 5 to 20 minutes and
is almost guaranteed to crash if I try to do anything in KMail until it's
finished.
Best,
Michael
greets, folks . . .
is there a reliable, nondestructive way to force kmail to reindex a mail
subdirectory?
thanks.
Yes, just delete the index files *.index *.index.ids *.index.sorted. When
you restart kmail, it'll rebuild the indices. If you want to be on the save
side, create a copy of your mail folder and then delete the indices ... 
7:53 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] forcing a kmail reindex
On Tuesday 27 November 2018 14:06:54 Michael wrote:
On Tuesday 27 November 2018 05:44:56 am Dr. Nikolaus
Klepp wrote:
I think I may have found the cause of that, I tried to run claws and it
made some non-kmail files in the kmail Mail corpus. I deleted them and
while I have had the advisory since but never the hour+ long cpu burn as
seen by htop. 4 or 5 seconds after closing the advisory and its ready to
work again. I use old faithfull, mc to look for and do the cleanup .
Am Dienstag, 27. November 2018 schrieb dep:
Ah, probably goes without saying, but KMail seems really twitchy
during start up when rebuilding (or loading?) its indexes. Basically
check top to see if it's finished. On my system it'll suck up a full
CPU for 5 to 20 minutes and is almost guaranteed to crash if I try to
do anything in KMail until it's finished.
Best,
Michael
greets, folks . . .
is there a reliable, nondestructive way to force kmail to reindex
a mail subdirectory?
thanks.
Yes, just delete the index files *.index *.index.ids *.index.sorted.
When you restart kmail, it'll rebuild the indices. If you want to be
on the save side, create a copy of your mail folder and then delete
the indices ...
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8:20 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] forcing a kmail reindex
On Tuesday 27 November 2018 01:53:39 pm Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 27 November 2018 14:06:54 Michael wrote:
Hey Gene,
The odds of me having non KMail files, or no longer supported file fomats,
there are really high, as I've manually transported the KMail directories
back from Mandrake to OpenSUSU, to ???, to CentOS, to Ubuntu...
On Tuesday 27 November 2018 05:44:56 am Dr.
Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
I think I may have found the cause of that, I tried to run claws and it
made some non-kmail files in the kmail Mail corpus. I deleted them and
while I have had the advisory since but never the hour+ long cpu burn as
seen by htop. 4 or 5 seconds after closing the advisory and its ready to
work again. Am Dienstag, 27. November 2018 schrieb dep:
Ah, probably goes without saying, but KMail seems really twitchy
during start up when rebuilding (or loading?) its indexes. Basically
check top to see if it's finished. On my system it'll suck up a full
CPU for 5 to 20 minutes and is almost guaranteed to crash if I try to
do anything in KMail until it's finished.
Best,
Michael greets, folks . . .
is there a reliable, nondestructive way to force kmail to reindex
a mail subdirectory?
thanks.
Yes, just delete the index files *.index *.index.ids *.index.sorted.
When you restart kmail, it'll rebuild the indices. If you want to be
on the save side, create a copy of your mail folder and then delete
the indices ... I use old faithfull, mc to look for and do the cleanup
.
What is this 'mc' you speak off? Has to be better than me doing a manual
scan ;)
Best,
Michael
9:23 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] forcing a kmail reindex
On Tuesday 27 November 2018 15:20:22 Michael wrote:
On Tuesday 27 November 2018 01:53:39 pm Gene Heskett
wrote:
Thats Midnight Commander to those of us using linux since back in
the '90's, and now called just mc in the package managers windows, or in
an xterm when you want to use it. Some distro's install it by default.
Its the original *nix swiss army knife of two pane file managers. Highly
recommended by grandpa gene. :) In terms of capability, its the king,
the rest are just eye candy with virtually zero calories and very small
wrenches. That said, be carefull what you do with it, you can destroy
your system by using it wrong.
On Tuesday 27 November 2018 14:06:54 Michael
wrote:
Hey Gene,
The odds of me having non KMail files, or no longer supported file
fomats, there are really high, as I've manually transported the KMail
directories back from Mandrake to OpenSUSU, to ???, to CentOS, to
Ubuntu...
On Tuesday 27 November 2018 05:44:56 am Dr.
Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
I think I may have found the cause of that, I tried to run claws and
it made some non-kmail files in the kmail Mail corpus. I deleted
them and while I have had the advisory since but never the hour+
long cpu burn as seen by htop. 4 or 5 seconds after closing the
advisory and its ready to work again. Am Dienstag, 27. November 2018 schrieb dep:
> greets, folks . . .
>
> is there a reliable, nondestructive way to force kmail to
> reindex a mail subdirectory?
>
> thanks.
Yes, just delete the index files *.index *.index.ids
*.index.sorted. When you restart kmail, it'll rebuild the
indices. If you want to be on the save side, create a copy of
your mail folder and then delete the indices ...
Ah, probably goes without saying, but KMail seems really twitchy
during start up when rebuilding (or loading?) its indexes.
Basically check top to see if it's finished. On my system it'll
suck up a full CPU for 5 to 20 minutes and is almost guaranteed to
crash if I try to do anything in KMail until it's finished.
Best,
Michael I use old faithfull, mc to look for and do the
cleanup .
What is this 'mc' you speak off? Has to be better than me doing a
manual scan ;)
Best,
Michael
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28 Nov
28 Nov
2:26 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] forcing a kmail reindex
said Dr. Nikolaus Klepp:
| Yes, just delete the index files *.index *.index.ids *.index.sorted.
| When you restart kmail, it'll rebuild the indices. If you want to be on
| the save side, create a copy of your mail folder and then delete the
| indices ...
Many thanks. As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I had about 15,000
messages from an old OS/2 mail client stored in a kind of precursor to
maildir that I hoped to merge with my existing KMail archive. I tried the
various import options; the only one that worked was to import from Lotus
Notes -- which put every message in its own directory! Fortunately, I only
did about 5,000 messages that way. (And have been every spare minute
extracting and filing them, which involved reading thousands of messages
from 1996 and 1997, which was interesting but tiresome after awhile.)
Finally finished those and simply made a new KMail folder, MR2 stuff, and
copied all the remaining 10,000 messages into it. Started up KMail. It
asked to indes them. Which it did in about 10 seconds and now I'll be able
to do in a couple of hours twice what I was able to do with the Lotus
Notes import filter in more than three full days!
So many thanks indeed.
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