Bug 130139

Summary: Recently received email message is destroyed if kmail is not closed properly
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: David Saxton <david>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: Stefan.Borggraefe
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description David Saxton 2006-07-02 12:28:29 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.3)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Often when kmail is not closed properly (such as when my computer overheats and crashes itself), I'll restart, only to find that an email that I recently received is now blank; the Subject, Receiver and Date all display in the email list, however there is no text whatsoever displayed. Sometimes the message seems permanently destroyed; other times, the message reappears if I restart kmail.

The email in general is one that I received recently; I am not sure whether such emails are destroyed because they were currently selected, or because they had been received before kmail had closed down properly.

This has happened a lot, and I can (occasionally) reproduce the behaviour by:
(1) Sending a email to myself (and select the email in the sent-mail and inbox folders - not too sure if selecting it is important)
(2) Killing kmail (Ctrl+Alt+Escape *click*)
(3) Restarting kmail, to discover that often at least one of the emails is blank.
Comment 1 Stefan Borggraefe 2006-07-02 14:02:44 UTC 
Duplicate of bug 121272?

Sounds like an index corruption. When this happens nect time, try the following: Shut down KMail, and remove the index files for that particular directory or mbox. Please report back whether this helps.
Comment 2 Thomas McGuire 2007-07-17 15:07:10 UTC 
>Duplicate of bug 121272?
I think so, too.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121272 ***