On Tuesday 22 October 2002 9:14 pm, Oracle Administrator wrote: > > Maildir's are real directories not single files. Single files are > > generally in the mbox format. kmail automatically adds in index to the > > mbox files if they don't exist. If they do exist and are wrong - that > > may be the cause of the problem. The indexes are called .<folder > > name>.index (note the . at the front - which generally makes them hidden > > - you need to do an ls -a on the directory to see them. > > -rw------- 1 oracle oracle 3022742791 2002-10-20 20:12 Data > -rw------- 1 oracle oracle 33 2002-10-20 20:12 .Data.index > -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oracle 33 2002-10-20 20:12 .Data.index.ids > -rw------- 1 oracle oracle 1042561 2002-10-22 04:36 Pan > -rw------- 1 oracle oracle 7321 2002-10-22 04:36 .Pan.index > -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oracle 117 2002-10-22 04:36 .Pan.index.ids > -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oracle 329 2002-10-20 20:10 > .Pan.index.sorted -rw------- 1 oracle oracle 2898162 2002-10-21 > 21:03 sent-mail -rw------- 1 oracle oracle 18621 2002-10-21 21:03 > .sent-mail.index -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oracle 297 2002-10-21 > 21:03 > .sent-mail.index.ids > -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oracle 2467 2002-09-14 19:29 > .sent-mail.index.sorted > > This is an excerpt of my Mail folder directory listing. Judging from the > index file sizes of the other two KMail directories, Pan and sent-mail, I > conclude that the index file for the Data directory has become damaged. > > If you feel this is a fair assessment, how can I correct the situation? > -- > Comments and information are appreciated. > > Robert
Quit kmail, delete the index files, i.e rm ~/Mail/.Data.index*, and restart kmail and it should reappear. Nick
