Version: 1.9.10 (using 3.5.10, Gentoo) Compiler: Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.27-gentoo-r9 I a KDE session is finished at the hard way and KMail was running before I have after the next login within one of my folders a message with is empty, has "No subject" as a subject, has an unknown sender and 01.01.1970 00:59 am as a date and an attachment size of 8.2 KB. Howver the message is empty (View -> see message code). Forward and/or reply didn't show any content of that message too. Attached is a screenshot of what I mean (this example has a message within the folder "spam"). tfoerste@n22 ~ $ ls -lR ~/Mail/.inbox.directory/spam /home/tfoerste/Mail/.inbox.directory/spam: total 12 drwx------ 2 tfoerste users 4096 Mar 1 10:34 cur drwx------ 2 tfoerste users 4096 Feb 24 2006 new drwx------ 2 tfoerste users 4096 Mar 1 10:19 tmp /home/tfoerste/Mail/.inbox.directory/spam/cur: total 0 /home/tfoerste/Mail/.inbox.directory/spam/new: total 0 /home/tfoerste/Mail/.inbox.directory/spam/tmp: total 0
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Anything strange could happen to an application data when the application is killed suddenly, without time to do anything with the data, as for example, when the X server dissapears.
You need to recreate the index of the folder (right click on the folder -> properties -> maintenance). But as said above: hard killing an app can lead to anything.
(In reply to comment #3) > You need to recreate the index of the folder (right click on the folder -> > properties -> maintenance). Probably a KDE4 feature ?
Yes, index recreation via right mouse popup is a KDE4 feature. In KDE3 you can manually remove the .index files when kmail is stopped, then the index will be recreated on kmail start.