Re: kmail lost old folders/emails

From: Alexander Dalloz (alexander.dalloz_at_uni-bielefeld.de)
Date: 04/02/04

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    Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 18:08:33 +0200
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    Am Fr, den 02.04.2004 schrieb John Walsh um 11:57:

    > Hi,

    > 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

    Please use a mirror. The main Redhat server has already enough traffic.

    > 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.

    Doing an XFree and KDE update while having X running is not the best
    idea. Better switch to init 3, run up2date-nox -u there and when
    finished switch back to init 5.

    > 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).

    root? You mean you are running X and KDE as root? This would be very
    bad. If you did not mean that please explain what the permissions are.

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

    If you use IMAP you might need to resubscribe the additional folders.

    > 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.

    Check the permissions.

    > 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

    Which mouse do you have? There should be no issue with the mouse and
    latest FC1 kernel .2174 as far as I know.

    Alexander 

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