Version: (using KDE 4.2.2) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages Kmail hangs almost as soon as it starts. Behavior only started after upgrade to 4.2.2 http://www.linux-archive.org/debian-kde/279914-kmail-kde-4-2-2-indexing-again-again.html explains the situation, but to repost: From time to time, kmail eats up CPU, Disk I/O and memory while it seems to go through all emails (~25.000 and ~4,5 GB). Started from konsole, kmail outputs lines like: kmail(6098)/kmail (storage internals) KMFolderMaildir::getDwString: KDE_fopen(abs_file= "/usr/oms/Mail/.MailingLists.directory/Andere/cur/1239002674.5913.zKNVK:2,S" , "r+") == stream == 0x9ae7668 kmail(6098)/kmail (storage internals) KMFolderMaildir::getDwString: fclose(mIndexStream = 0x9ae7668 ) kmail(6098)/kmail (storage internals) KMFolderMaildir::getDwString: KDE_fopen(abs_file= "/usr/oms/Mail/.MailingLists.directory/Andere/cur/1239009776.5913.15eQ9:2,S" , "r+") == stream == 0x9a2c7a0 kmail(6098)/kmail (storage internals) KMFolderMaildir::getDwString: fclose(mIndexStream = 0x9a2c7a0 ) I already stopped kmail, removed all index files, started again. Kmail than rebuilds the index files - that's what i expect. after a few minutes pausing, kmail seems to start again... pausing... starting...etc.
I left kmail open and indexing for 8 hours straight. Now it doesn't do it anymore.
I'm not sure what the bug is you want to report. If kmail wants to index again and again on each start, that is a bug. But you wrote, it stopped it, after a long time. So may be you want to say that indexing is too slow?
Apologies. Seems fixed in the new 4.4 version.