kmail lost old folders/emails

From: John Walsh (dear_grommet_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/02/04

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Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:57:01 +0000

    Hi,

    wrt: kmail

    I had FC1 as per the CD ISO's installed and working for a day, I had coppied
    my old
    user accounts (from RH9.0) accross - totally replacing anything Fedora
    created.

    When I login, it says the 'Desktop' has changed, and its makes a link to the
    old one,
    and thats fine.

    When I ran Kmail, all was well - it saw all the folders and emails I had
    before.

    Then yesterday I got all the latest packages through up2date:

    yum fedora-core-1
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/$ARCH/os/
    yum updates-released
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/$ARCH/
    #yum updates-testing http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-1

    I don't think there was a new kmail, but I don't know if it is included as
    part of another rpm...

    Anyway, while it was downloading the rpm's (so it had not even installed
    them yet, but maybe
    rhn-applet-2.1.4-3.i386.rpm had been installed), I had kmail open and things
    started to
    go wrong.

    First I got error messages when clicking on an existing folder, that it
    could not read it, because
    it was either not in 'maildir' format, or it did not have permissions to
    read it (this is as root).

    So I closed kmail and re-opened it - now it only has the default folders and
    all the existing
    ones don't show up.

    Even in the inbox, new emails show up, but the existing old ones (that are
    in the correct
    place) do not show up.

    All the filters and ID's are still in kmail, just fine, its just the folders
    and emails that have gone.

    Another note: that link to the old desktop that was made at the start, also
    dissapeared.

    Anyone any ideas ? Or have any questions ?

    Thanks,
    John.

    ps. after the up2date, I don't use the latest kernel because it does not see
    the mouse, so I'm
    still running the original FC1.0 kernel 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl

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