KMail 1.6.1 running under KDE3.2 (experimental) has suddenly become seriously unstable. Rebooting to a more conservative installation on the same computer (Libranet 2.8 using KDE 3.1.5 and KMail 1.5.4, but sharing the same /home directory) has not so far alleviated the problems.
Problem 1: Selecting a mesage with the mouse damages the text. Selecting the message reduces the name, sender and date to Unkown. It does not appear to shorten the message. I believe --- but am not sure --- that if I move the message to another folder, the entire message might be recovered. This morning, there were only about 20 messages in my Inbox. With the creation of duplicate messages and loss of headers, more have been created. Problem 2: Attempting to apply filters manually to the inbox causes KMail to crash instantly. My default mail handling is to download all messages to the inbox. I scan the message list quickly and then do a Select All| Filter. Problem 3: If I inadvertently hit Ctrl-J (apply filters manually) while in a large mailing list directly (one mailing list has 18,000 messages), hundreds, in one case, thousands of duplicates are created. I use KMail's default maildir format. Is there some reasonably straightforward way to identify and delete these duplicates. Problem 4: Kmail frequently ceases responding when I attempt to send a message. I do not store passwords and therefore always enter them when prompted when I first load KMail. Similarly, my ISP uses authentication for sending messages, and I must therefore enter the password again every time I send a message. KMail frequently hangs for several minutes, sometimes permanently before the password screen comes up. This is the first message that I have attempted to send since rebooting to the more conservative setup. Until I have a better fix on what I need to do to restabilize the mail store, I would ask that you copy replies to a WebMail accout where I can access them without using KMail. The address is brmiller0423 AT yahoodotcountry. The country code is ca.
