On Friday 07 February 2003 01:01 pm, magnet wrote: I had this happen several times to me. What I found out my problem was --- It turned out that there was a "corrupt" message in the mail folders. I used Kong to look at the files and noticed that there was one more file than Kmail showed as messages. When I opened it using Kedit it had a horrendously long string of numbers in the from field. I deleted the file and Kmail got alot better. Don't know if your problem is similiar, but its something to look at. David
> I have no idea what went wrong or why it happened, but I was reading > through my emails and on some when read the header disappeared and the > message appeared blank. > Strange but didn't give it much thought at the time so I closed kmail down. > When I tried to restart it a little later it just wouldn't from either the > toolbar icon, the Kmenu or from a console. > I went into my /home/ directory and renamed the directory to "saved-Mail" > and powered down the computer completely. > Rebooted and started up kmail ok, it detected the missing Mail directory > and created a new one. I copied the contents across from my saved copy but > then it stopped working again. > I can't seem to find a solution to reinstate my old emails into kmail > again. Anyone got any suggestions please? -- ( ) ( ) ( 0 0 ) ---( )--- ----o---- "Linux is not The Answer. Yes is the answer. Linux is The Question" Registered Linux user #300497
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