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From: "John Walsh" <dear_grommet(a)hotmail.com>
Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: kmail lost old folders/emails
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:57:01 +0000
Hi,
wrt: kmail
I had FC1 as per the CD ISO's installed and working for a day, I had
coppied my old
user accounts (from RH9.0) accross - totally replacing anything Fedora
created.
When I login, it says the 'Desktop' has changed, and its makes a link to
the old one,
and thats fine.
When I ran Kmail, all was well - it saw all the folders and emails I had
before.
Then yesterday I got all the latest packages through up2date:
yum fedora-core-1
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/$ARCH/os/
yum updates-released
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/$ARCH/
#yum updates-testing
http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-1
I don't think there was a new kmail, but I don't know if it is included as
part of another rpm...
Anyway, while it was downloading the rpm's (so it had not even installed
them yet, but maybe
rhn-applet-2.1.4-3.i386.rpm had been installed), I had kmail open and
things started to
go wrong.
First I got error messages when clicking on an existing folder, that it
could not read it, because
it was either not in 'maildir' format, or it did not have permissions to
read it (this is as root).
So I closed kmail and re-opened it - now it only has the default folders
and all the existing
ones don't show up.
Even in the inbox, new emails show up, but the existing old ones (that are
in the correct
place) do not show up.
All the filters and ID's are still in kmail, just fine, its just the
folders and emails that have gone.
Another note: that link to the old desktop that was made at the start, also
dissapeared.
Anyone any ideas ? Or have any questions ?
Thanks,
John.
ps. after the up2date, I don't use the latest kernel because it does not
see the mouse, so I'm
still running the original FC1.0 kernel 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
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Update:
I compared the contents of 'Mail' to that from my backup (the original
source of the
RH9.0 users homes), and quite a few things had changed.
for example:
'drafts', 'outbox', 'sent-mail' and 'trash' had become a
file (zero length)
instead of a folder,
some of my folders had dissapeard, but their '.*.index[.ids/.sorted]' files
were still there,
Now I'm starting to think kmail had tried to convert them to mbox format -
but I have no idea
why it would do this while it is open (not at start/exit).
Of my old folders that still existed as folders, they only contained the
'cur' sub-folder, but
they did have emails in there.
Kmail was still configured to use 'maildir' format, but none of the existing
folders showed up.
I've restored my 'Mail' from my backup, and now Kmail is reading everything
just fine, so
I'm sorted.
But if this looks like a bug to anyone - I've cc'd it to the the Kmail team.
Kmail = 1.5.4 (using KDE 3.1.4-4 Red Hat)
Thanks,
John.
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