Am Samstag 03 November 2007 schrieb Kevin Krammer: > On Saturday 03 November 2007, Hans wrote: > > 1. The folder "trash" can not be deleted. It seems, the mails are > > deleted, but they are NOT. The size of the file ~/Mail/trash should be > > set to zero with an empty trash, but it is NOT. The mails are staying in > > this folder. Besides this, this is also a security problem, as mails will > > never be securely deleted (and other persons might take a look at it) > > Is the trash folder of type "mbox"? > If yes, compact it (in German "Ordner komprimieren")
Hi Kevin, the folders are in "maildir" format. > > > 2. The content of the "sent-mail" folder can not be deleted. The same > > behavior as desribed above, with one exception: > > Do you mean it can't be deleted as in the mails are still visible in KMail > or that they are still on disk? > The LAST Mail is still visible. I can see, that it tries to delete the mail (there is a line through the text) , but it will not be deleted. The mails stay in the file ~/Mail/sent-mail, too. > > When trying to push the LAST(!) Mail into the trash, kmail crashes with > > segfault. > > This is definitely a bug. > Does this also happen if you do "Move all messages to trash" from the > folder's context menu? > Yes, it does. > > 3. The content of folder "drafts" are no more shown, although it is still > > existing in ~/Mail/drafts. > > Hmm. > While KMail is not running, remove the .drafts.index file from the mail > directory and then restart KMail. Does this help? > No, I tried this, too. Also forcing to rebuild a new index will not help. To force it, I deleted some lines in the "trash" file. Kmail remarks it, and built a new index, but no success. All mails appeared again, but could not deleted as described above. > > 4. Please check: I suppose, the access-rights are not set correctly by > > default ( I never changed them manually). ~/Mail/outbox, ~/Mail/sentmail > > and ~/Mail/trash got 0600, but ~/Mail/drafts got 0644. > > I think 0600 is the correct one, though I also have one with 0644. My guess > is that this folder has been created at a time where there has probably > been a bug in kdelibs or somewhere else which resulted in those access > flags. > > Cheers, > Kevin I hope, this will help. IMO there is definately a bug, which might be responsible for all described behaviours. Regards Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]