Kmail just disappears

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 23 March 2009 16:57:52 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> On Monday 23 March 2009 16:44:57 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Monday 23 March 2009 12:38:59 Claude Jones wrote:
> > > I've had this happen with individual messages. One message would be
> > > problematic, and it was a real pain to get around (I'd have to find a
> > > way to mark it read  without entering the folder or some such...) I
> > > can't say what fixed the issue, but, I would guess it may have been an
> > > update.
> >
> > FWIW, I had this problem with a particular message.  The big problem was
> > that every time I tried to start it the cursor was on the bad message. 
> > The way I got around the problem was to edit ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc,
> > [Behaviour] section, setting ActionEnterFolder=SelectFirstNew - which
> > puts me onto a different message.  Then I read all messages in the folder
> > apart from the bad one, and used the Folder context menu to mark all
> > messages read.
> >
> > Anne
>
> There should be no such thing as a "bad message which causes kmail to
> crash. Which means that this is a bug. Which means it should be reported.
> If you haven't removed the "bad message" don't. Please report this
> upstream.
>
IIRC I discovered later that the problem was not in the message itself, but a 
problem with the GPG signature of the message.  I don't recall the details, 
but GPG was choking on it.  It has only happened once and that was a long, 
long time ago.

Anne
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