[Kde-pim] kmail scary behaviour

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 09 February 2009, Dag Nygren wrote:
> On Saturday 07 February 2009 14:35:57 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Friday 06 February 2009, Dag Nygren wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > just had problems with my IMAP account here and did a rebuild of
> > > the IMAP mailbox indexes (command mixrbld).
> > > Now starting kmail and selecting my inbox kmail first list the
> > > emails in there OK, but then goes on removing older
> > > mails from the shown list. Altogether removed 1000 emails out of
> > > 3000
> >
> > The IMAP UID of those old messages has probably changed and
> > therefore KMail removed them because it thought they were gone. And
> > it didn't rediscover the old messages because they are not flagged
> > as NEW.
> >
> > I suggest to delete KMail's index files for your IMAP inbox. You
> > can find it under
> >   ~/.kde(4?)/share/apps/kmail/imap/.<some number>.directory/
> > Remove the files:
> > .INBOX.index* (several index files)
> > INBOX (cache of the message headers)
>
> Thanks for the advice, but did that and kmail still behaves very
> strangely. Now I can see the mail headers, but no body is available.
> If I do a search the results are found, but still kmail refuses to
> show the body.
>
> And also after a time the number of total mails will be decreased
> from the original 3000+ to something btw. 1000 and 2000. And at the
> moment I have 1504 unread mail in my inbox, but clicking on "Mark all
> read" doesn't affect the unread value.
>
> Is kmail storing this info elsewhere than under the
> ~/.kde4/share/kmail/imap ?

The message counts are cached in ~/.kde4/share/config/kmailrc. Look for 
the section
  [Folder-.<some number>.directory/INBOX]
and remove the lines
  TotalMsgs=...
  UnreadMsgs=...


Regards,
Ingo
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