On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Isaac Curtis wrote: > On Saturday 17 August 2002 08:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Isaac Curtis wrote: > > > On Saturday 17 August 2002 03:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Saturday 17 Aug 2002 3:36 am, you wrote: > > > > > I can't get my messages to thread in KMail. I've tried unchecking and > > > > > rechecking the option to no avail, as well as restarting X and the > > > > > entire machine. Any ideas? > > > > > > > > > > Isaac > > > > > > > > Works in mine - but if you filter into different folders you will need > > > > to check it for each folder. HTH > > > > > > > > Anne > > > > > > I thought you were on to something for a sec, but I just checked and > > > everything was already in order. Any other ideas? It used to work fine > > > but the last time I logged in they were all flat and I haven't been able > > > to re-thread them since. > > > > > > Isaac > > > > Isaac, > > > > Was there anything else that occured at the time when they last worked > > correctly that sticks out in your mind? > > Nothing whatsoever. Should I delete and recreate my Mail folder? It's a last > resort because I'd like to learn a better way, but I've got no personal or > valued emails that are at risk of being lost. So what do you think? Time to > resort to brute force tactics? > > Isaac Isaac,
I just had a thought. I was thinking about "how" the program uses the header information on the email so as to know how and where to thread a message. It could be that "if" messages in other directories are being threaded correctly that there is something amiss with the headers in the message file for "Inbox." email comes in as a plain text file and is "appended" to the Inbox text file that the email program presents as a folder with messages inside it. Each message is seperated by a "From" header that signifies the beginning of the each message. That is the first place I would begin to look for the answer to this mystery. I used to use Sylpheed and every now and then if the program didn't close properly some corruption would happen to the mail folders, which in reality are really text files containing email message that have been received. I discovered that the "From" header usually on the very first message of the Inbox file would get truncated and instead of reading "From <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" the "F" would get be dropped and Sylpheed would be unable to read the file, present the message and would subsequently die with an error. Until I discovered what was causing the problem it was a real mystery and the only reason I "did" discover what was responsible for causing the error was because at the time there were a few other files at the time that were experiencing file corruption. To this day I still don't know "what" was originally responsible for causing this corruption. I can only assume that the file wasn't being written to disk properly on program close, or by the MTA as new messages were coming in to the server. I rather suspect the latter because the problem was mainly with the file that resides in /var/spool/mail/$USER. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high!"
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