Greetings all;
I have been harassed by bad index files notices, but I may have found the cause. I just went thru every folder in its Mail corpus finding several dozen leftover claws files, either in the root of each folder, in the cur or tmp subdirs, nuked them all and restarted kmail, which then bitched about every folder I had cleaned up. I closed the advisory and fully expected to see kmail hogging the cpu up to 100% for an hour or more as it had done in the past, but it was done reindexing everything in just a long minute!
All of the claws crap carried dates in 2013 to 2014, which would be about the time frame I did have it installed.
So if your kmail is acting likes its infected with flooby dust, see what happens if you do a bit of housecleaning in your ~/Mail subdir. I think it was getting confused over encountering strange file names.
Time will tell the truth of this tail of course.
said Gene Heskett:
| So if your kmail is acting likes its infected with flooby dust, see what | happens if you do a bit of housecleaning in your ~/Mail subdir. I think | it was getting confused over encountering strange file names. | | Time will tell the truth of this tail of course.
I recently imported a ton of messages -- ~20,000 -- into KMail, where I store decades of mail in a nice, normal maildir format because it seems both the closest to standard and the least likely to get corrupted of the mail formats. With help from this list, I was able to import the last 15,000 or so by making a directory in the mail tree and copying the old files (from OS/2's MR/2-ICE, which used something like maildir except that maildir hadn't been invented yet), then let KMail index them when I reopened it. (Yes, I backed up my ~/Mail first!) It went surprisingly well.
(For the first 5,000 or so messages I tried to import via the Lotus Notes KMail filter, which worked well enough but put each message in its own subdirectory. If you want to see KMail get really slow, try having 5,000 separate subfolders.)
Re. the subject, KMail won't put foibles inline (unless, I guess, you're using html), but they work fine as attachments. I've had many attached foibles in KMail over the years.<g>
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Gene Heskett