| Summary: | dimap: kmail creates empty, broken messages | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kmail | Reporter: | Robert <bytewise> |
| Component: | IMAP | Assignee: | kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | xor |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 1.8 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Gentoo Packages | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Robert
2005-04-17 18:37:42 UTC
These emails usually mean broken index files. There are several common reason for broken index files: * Crashes. * .kde on a network drive, e.g. NFS. AFAIK kmail will detect some broken index files and rebuilds them. I suggest to retry with a more recent version and do an imapd trouble shoot -> rebuild indexes after a crash. Version: 1.9.1 (on Suse 10) The same situation happened to me yesterday after a KMail crash. I have lost the content of all messages in my inbox. The messages are there, although only in quantity, thus having empty headers and bodies: X-Length: 12 Status: R X-Status: NC X-KMail-EncryptionState: X-KMail-SignatureState: X-KMail-MDN-Sent: The messages' status though is still valid: I can see which I have not read yet, which I have replied to, etc. I have tried to troubleshoot: rebuilding indexes and cache - with no effect. (Means, the rebuild worked, however as the messages on the server were altered, there is no way to recover them.) The webmail-interface of my account provides the same information: all messages with no content. (As a proof of the change which happened.) The sysad of my provider tells me that he cannot reconstruct what happened during the crash from the server-side... and that all content of the messages is lost and cannot be restored. Excat same thing happenned. I had a crash that occured when I selected "open in the addressbook" from the right click menu. then all messages in my inbox but one where emptied. they where all there, with the right headers, but then when I click on them, the preview pane show them empty, and the headers turn all to unknown... might be similar to what happens in bug 89549 with IMAP. I also have this problem with empty message appearing quite frequently. But did not find a rule, how this happens. Same thing with kmail 1.9.6 X-UID: 37655 Status: RO X-Status: RC X-KMail-EncryptionState: N X-KMail-SignatureState: N X-KMail-MDN-Sent: I have a variation of this problem. KMail creates an empty copy of an email that is correct. Deleting the empty copy causes kmail to crash Yes, kmail 1.9.6 suffers from this bug. After a power outage I noticed that kmail had an email entry in the inbox which isn't possible to delete. When I launch kmail through the command line, the following warning message is printed out: kmail: WARNING: FolderStorage::getMsg, message has no sernum, index: 0 What do I need to do to get rid of that "ghost" email entry? KDE Version 1.9.7 (KDE 3.5.8, Gentoo) Application E-Mail Client Operating System Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.24-gentoo-r3 Compiler Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu after crash same undeletable ghost mail as outlined in comment #8 *** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. *** debug message when trying to delete(move to trash): [virtual KMCommand::Result KMMoveCommand::execute()] No message found for serial number 0 KDE Version 1.9.9 (KDE 3.5.8, Kubuntu Hardy) Application KMail Operating System Linux (i686) release 2.6.24-17-generic Compiler Target: i486-linux-gnu This is almost a daily occurance for me with remote Courier IMAP hosts; A few idents: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT IDLE QUOTA ACL ACL2=UNION] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2004 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION STARTTLS] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2005 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT IDLE QUOTA ACL ACL2=UNION] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2004 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. It seems that KMail caches the header, and when it 'defaults' to this message, it does not refresh the data. It gets an index of 0, and crashes out, hard. I've been using KMail for years, and have only had a few minor quibbles - however, the frequency and issues caused by this one within the last week with 3 remote IMAP accounts is unbearable. *** Bug 233069 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Bug 233069 is the result of a Kmail which does NOT use IMAP. So maybe this is not an IMAP issue, but in some other component? I've tried the "Recreate index" feature on an affected non-IMAP folder and it didn't restore the emtpy mails. So you might consider which components are shared by IMAP and normal folders and are NOT the indexes :| Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report. KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2. We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback. |