Re: [Gnumed-devel] My Kmail has crapped itself

[richard terry]

Well by the time I read this I'd got 99.9% back by the method you describe 
below, copying each folder at once till I found the dead one.

Interestingly it was my 'friends folder', so I'm now friendless, but I'll work 
on that next week.

Regards

Richard

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 03:47 pm, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> On Thursday 18 March 2004 22:50, richard terry wrote:
> > Considering it contains mega amounts and years of emails (backed up)
> > this is disconcerting.
> >
> > My fault in that I accidentally turned the power key in my hard drive
> > caddie whilst the machine was running, so I guess that killed something.
> >
> > So I'm using thunderbird to send this:
> >
> > Error message
> >
> > address@hidden:~/Desktop$ kmail
> >
> > > QGArray::at: Absolute index 0 out of range
> > > ERROR: Communication problem with kmail, it probably crashed.
> > >
> > >From fiddling I've found the following:
> >
> > - Kmail still runs as root
> > - Deleting my ~/Mail directory allows Kmail to re-create a new set of
> > mail boxes and runs ok as user richard - Fiddling with the config files
> > in ~.kde/....... kmail/... does nothing
> >
> > >From my programming experience the error message would seem to indicate
> > > that one the the index files in my kmail directory is corrupted,
> > > however as I've literally hundreds of mail boxes finding which one is
> > > problematic.
>
> Can't you just copy them to another directory and move the back one by one?
>
> > I've thought of running another mail program - importing the kmail stuff,
> > then exporting to a new instance of kmail but can't find any obvious
> > import filters for kmail.
>
> Have you checked out http://kmail.kde.org/tools.html
> Don't know if anything mentioned there could be usefull.
>
> > Any idea's appreciated.
> >
> > Richard
>
> I am using KMail myself but I am afraid I can't help you. I have some
> problems with KMail myself. Just a few days ago it deleted all the mails in
> 2002 and 2003. I hope that is not a feature. It did not touch 2004 mails.
>
> I had a corrupted mailbox a cpuple years ago. Because I did not know what
> else to do I corrected the f..d up headers by hand.
>
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