Bug 104705

Summary:	Mail lost when out of space on /tmp.
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	barr <xbarr>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.8
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description barr 2005-04-28 14:27:54 UTC

Version:           1.8 (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package
Compiler:          gcc 3.4.3 
OS:                Linux

When out of disk space on /tmp mails are dowloaded *and removed from the POP server* but appear as empty (No Subjet, Date: Unkown, Author: Unknown, etc, ...) in the Inbox folder.

No warnings are issued.

Comment 1 David Faure 2005-04-28 14:32:57 UTC

On Thursday 28 April 2005 14:27, barr wrote:
> When out of disk space on /tmp mails are dowloaded *and removed from the POP server* but appear as empty (No Subjet, Date: Unkown, Author: Unknown, etc, ...) in the Inbox folder.


Index file got corrupted. Workaround, to recover your mails:
quit kmail
rm ~/Mail/.inbox.index*
launch kmail again

If you didn't use kmail before 1.8, the path might be
~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/Mail/.inbox.index*

Comment 2 barr 2005-04-29 06:53:43 UTC

Unfortunately empty mails are not recovered even after removing the Folder index files (.inbox.index* in my case).

Comment 3 Thiago Macieira 2006-02-02 19:28:23 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 50462 ***