[Bug 151803] Problems with folder permissions

[Hans]

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------- Additional Comments From hans.ullrich loop de  2007-11-04 22:39 -------
Am Sonntag 04 November 2007 schrieb Thomas McGuire:
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Now I understand, why you ask. I removed the whole directory ~/M ail, and 
started kmail new. I checked, and dicovered now a new directory "drafts" 
and "trash" with some subdirectories "cur", "new" and "tmp".  This is new ! 
Before it, there was only a FILE with the name "drafts" and one with "trash". 
To explain it, this is my directory listing.

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drwxr-xr-x   7 ullhan63 ullhan63      4096 2007-11-04 22:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 241 ullhan63 ullhan63     12288 2007-11-04 22:20 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 ullhan63 ullhan63     94415 2007-11-04 22:20 drafts
drwxr-xr-x   2 ullhan63 ullhan63      4096 2004-08-27 20:07 .drafts.directory
-rw-------   1 ullhan63 ullhan63        33 2007-11-04 22:20 .drafts.index
-rw-r--r--   1 ullhan63 ullhan63        33 2007-11-04 22:20 .drafts.index.ids
drwx------   5 ullhan63 ullhan63      4096 2007-11-04 22:21 inbox
-rw-------   1 ullhan63 ullhan63      2405 2007-11-04 22:21 .inbox.index
-rw-r--r--   1 ullhan63 ullhan63        69 2007-11-04 22:21 .inbox.index.ids
-rw-r--r--   1 ullhan63 ullhan63       417 2007-11-04 
22:21 .inbox.index.sorted
drwx------   2 ullhan63 ullhan63      4096 2007-05-24 
22:54 .KMail-Import.direct                                                                                                
ory
-rw-r--r--   1 ullhan63 ullhan63        33 2007-05-24 
22:54 .KMail-Import.index.                                                                                                
ids
drwx------   3 ullhan63 ullhan63      4096 2007-09-06 17:29 .Kunden.directory
-rw-------   1 ullhan63 ullhan63         0 2007-11-04 22:20 outbox
-rw-------   1 ullhan63 ullhan63        33 2007-11-04 22:20 .outbox.index
-rw-r--r--   1 ullhan63 ullhan63        33 2007-11-04 22:20 .outbox.index.ids
-rw-------   1 ullhan63 ullhan63        33 2007-11-04 22:20 .outlook-izn.index
-rw-r--r--   1 ullhan63 ullhan63        33 2007-11-04 
22:20 .outlook-izn.index.i                                                                                                
ds
-rw-------   1 ullhan63 ullhan63         0 2007-11-03 19:07 sent-mail
-rw-------   1 ullhan63 ullhan63        33 2007-11-03 19:07 .sent-mail.index
-rw-r--r--   1 ullhan63 ullhan63        33 2007-11-03 
19:07 .sent-mail.index.ids
drwx------   5 ullhan63 ullhan63      4096 2007-11-04 22:20 templates
-rw-------   1 ullhan63 ullhan63        33 2007-11-04 22:20 .templates.index
-rw-r--r--   1 ullhan63 ullhan63        33 2007-11-04 
22:20 .templates.index.ids
-rw-------   1 ullhan63 ullhan63 254946906 2007-11-04 22:21 trash
-rw-------   1 ullhan63 ullhan63        33 2007-11-04 22:21 .trash.index
-rw-r--r--   1 ullhan63 ullhan63        33 2007-11-04 22:21 .trash.index.ids

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You see, there is a FILE  "trash" , not a DIRECTORY. This file is huge ! And 
it was this file, I set to a size of zero. IMO it should got the size of 
zero, whenever I deleted the whole folder "trash" (in the GUI of kmail).
As I  NEVER chenged anything manually below ~/Mail/, 
I could only imagine, this structure is because I am using kmail now for many 
years. Of course, I could delete ~/Mail, but I have a lot of Mails, I cannot 
delete and loose them. So, any idea, how I could import them ? 



> It seems that you have some sort of setup problem. Try to quit KMail, then
> delete the ~/Mail folder completely (after backing it up somewhere else, of
> course!). Then restart KMail and see if you still got the same problems. It
> should work fine then.
>

Yes, this is what I tessted (see above)

> Have you got any other mail program running at the same time? Did you
> restore you mail folder from some kind of backup?


No, I did not.

Best regards

Hans

P.S. I checked this at my other computer (Debian sid, i386), and at this 
computer ther is the SAME structure as told above.