KMail again

[Eli Wapniarski]

It's been a long time since I've used dovecote. Currently using cyrus-imap and 
I have not seen that kind of error. Right now, I'm seriously thinking about 
zarafa.

Be that as I may. If I remember correctly. You will have to go to your mail 
cache which should be somewhere in /var/mail (could be wrong about the exact 
location) and go through a process of elimination.

1)  shut down your MTA (etc, sendmail,  postfix, etc.).
2)  Shutdown your imap server.
3)  Make a backup copy of your mail cache
4)  Delete the email that is causing you the grief (be mindful of the first
    message that says don't delete me. And be mindful of the seperator between
    emails.
5)  a) Restart your imap server and mta
    b) If that didn't fix the server go through steps 1 -5a again only delete
       a different email or section of emails.
    c) If you've only deleted 1 email then thats that. If you've deleted
       a section of emails, you will need to restore the backup, and go
       through steps 1- 5a making the section you delete smaller and smaller
       until you eliminate the email causing you the trouble.


I wish there was an easier way to do that, but I couldn't find any


Eli


On Saturday 13 March 2010 16:08:57 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I am running KMail on my laptop
> to access a dovecot/IMAP server on my desktop.
> 
> KMail works fine most of the time,
> except that there are a couple of "sick" messages
> which I can't get rid of.
> As soon as I click on them KMail crashes.
> 
> I've been waiting for this KMail bug to be solved,
> but that doesn't seem to be coming very soon
> (I've submitted a bugzilla, as have many others).
> 
> I'm wondering now if there is a simple way
> of dealing with the symptom,
> by getting rid of these bad messages.
> 
> I've seen a suggestion that the problem is due to
> some corruption of a dovecot/KMail cache,
> but I'm not sure what that refers to.
> 
> If any KMail/kdepim expert has a solution
> I should be very grateful.

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