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------- Additional Comments From spam_ebay_al edpnet be 2008-01-04 15:52
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Further to my previous posting, I have found something I think useful.
First, I am using kmail 1.9.5 on OpenSuse 10.2, KDE 3.5.5. Looking in the
tmp directory, I found that the temporary files created by clamav
(klammailxxxxxx is the format of the name) actually contains the "lost
messages", it seems even with the full header. I use clamav 0.91.2 and Klamav
0.41.
When the folder was in the maildir format, some of the half destroyed (i.e.
"Uknown") messages contained text referring to I/O errors or command that were
not understood. If kmail filters the messages through clamav even when you are
just trying to see a message that has already been received or copy/move it to
another folder, this could explain the problem at least in some cases: kmail
passes the message throug clamav, clamav creates the temporary file which
contains the full message, but for whatever reason when clamav tries to "pipe"
the message back to kmail, something doesn't work, so kmail ends up with
partial garbage.
This could also explain why the developer did not get to reproduce the
problem, if he does not use clamav with kmail - the problem is not with the
message "per sé" (some of the messages with the problem in my case are five
lines of pure gibberish casual text I type on the keyboard, nothing big or
complicated).
I will try later to disable temporarily the filtering of the messages
through clamav, and see if this makes the problem go away for new messages.
It may be worth checking and trying this even with kde 4, before it is
released - the problem was not being corrected because it was "unconfirmed",
but it could happen again.
Unfortunately I would need to think how (if it's possible) to pipe the
contents of temporary clamav files to kmail tricking it into adding the
messages correctly to the folders. Also, since the clammail files are temporary
files, it is not said that this trick can be used to recover the messages in
all cases.
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