On Thursday 15 November 2001 01:56 pm, you wrote: > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > On Thursday 15 November 2001 22:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Being a complete coward, I waited on my 2.2 upgrade until it appeared in > > testing. Yesterday, I joyously upgraded and sat back to enjoy the wonders > > that I had been hearing about on this list. > > > > Unfortunately my mail (in kmail) seems now to be broken. All new mail is > > reported as "No Subject" "Unknown "Wed Dec 31 15:59:59 1969" > > > > Is this a known problem ? Have I done something stupid ? > > There are hidden .index - files in your mail directory. The filenames are > .<folder-name>.index, e.g. .inbox.index, .drafts.index and so on. Deleting > these worked for me. But be sure to back up that directory before messing > with any files in it.
Stephan, thanks for the response. Even weirder ... I tried deleting the .index files as you suggested, then checked my mail again. Eight messages arrived, seven of them were still broken but yours came through correctly. Bizarre or what ? - Derek
