[Bug 146139] New: KMail asks again and again for rebuilding a corrupted index

[Martin Steigerwald]

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           Summary: KMail asks again and again for rebuilding a corrupted
                    index
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Debian testing
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: Martin Lichtvoll de


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

Hello, today KMail 3.5.7 told me that the index of a mail folder was corrupted - maybe due to that I tried xfs_fsr defragmenting on XFS filesystem while Kontact was still running. I said "Ok" since this was the only choice anyway and saw quite some disk activity and Kontact consumed quite some CPU.

After a while however I the requester that the same folder is *still* corrupted with only the choice to rebuild it again. When clicking "OK" I just got the same requester once again quickly. This actually seemed to be an endless loop. I tried 4-5 times as well.

I then quit KMail forcefully and started it again. I selected the folder in question and its index seemed to be okay.

Expected behavior would be that KMail doesn't tell me again about a corrupted index once it actually rebuilt it already. 

Ideally one would be able to bail out of of rebuilding the index, if one is about to just send a mail and wants to do that lengthy process later - but thats difficult to get right, KMail would need to display somehow that the index is corrupt and refuse to show to contents of the mail folder unless its rebuilt, probably not worth the effort for KDE 3.5.

Regards,
Martin