On Monday 26 September 2005 03:29 am, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > Am Freitag, 23. September 2005 20:30 schrieb Randy Kramer: > > On Friday 23 September 2005 01:29 pm, Theo Schmidt wrote: > > > This has solved it, thanks! Kmail used to compact mailboxes on > > > closing; it looks like it no longer does so. > > > > You're welcome! But there is something else I should have > > mentioned--hope you haven't unindexed your inbox yet-- > > > > on my kmail system, compaction was totally disabled "for safety > > reasons"--when I removed the index, all of a sudden I got thousands of > > old emails that had been "marked for deletion" (my words) (and no longer > > visible) but never actually deleted. > > When kmail detects a corrupted mbox file for the inbox (and for any other > folder), compacting it might eat all your mail, that's the safety reasons. > Without compacting, kmail can simply ignore the corrupted parts of the mbox > file, and it still works for everything else. But a compaction will mess > this all up.
Reinhold, Thanks for the information! I don't know if you are the right person to ask, but I'll ask here anyway, maybe someone will additional information. Is there / will there ever be a fix for this? I mean, I certainly don't want to lose emails (from my inbox or anywhere else) but also I don't want my inbox to: * grow without bounds filled with the text of removed emails * bring back those deleted emails when I have to reindex the inbox to fix some other problem (as discussed in this thread) What do other email clients do? Do they: * have a system of compaction that never fails, despite a perhaps corrupted mbox file * have a method to detect mbox corruption, perhaps when compaction is invoked, warn the operator, stop/prevent the compaction, and suggest corrective action to the user * have the same potential problem (of potentially losing emails on compaction of a corrupted mbox file), but just let the user learn the hard way * other? regards, Randy Kramer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
