[kdepim-users] Strange data loss in Kmail

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 11 February 2008, phep wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > happens again.  I have seen it several time, almost always
> > following a crash. If you are going to bulk process messages as you
> > described here, I suggest that you break the task into smaller
> > numbers.  The number of messages that can safely be processed seems
> > to vary between versions and distros.  I'd
>
> Thank you for this piece of information. That explains the huge crash
> I experimented when I first tried to switch to Kmail, and that's why
> I asked how to clean Kmail places some days ago ;-). I had no time to
> make a new try but now I know what I have to look out for when I
> start again.
>
> Do those crashes exhibit when the filters are automatically applied
> to a huge quantity of messages being popped out of the server ? I
> mean, I regularly pop several hundreds messages at a time with more
> than a dozen filters triaging them: is this a crash opportunity of
> choice ?

Filtering large quantities of incoming mail is uncritical. Only manual 
filtering, moving, copying, etc., large quantities of mail in one go 
tends to make KMail run out of memory and then crash.


Regards,
Ingo
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