[kdepim-users] Kmail crashes after syncing mail directories

[Alexander Borghgraef]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> wrote:

> On Friday 25 April 2008, Alexander Borghgraef wrote:
> > Hmm, this is getting more serious. Just backed up my maildir, in
> > which I have no problems accessing Mail/inbox/cur, but when I start
> > up kmail, I get the errors mentioned before, and I can't access
> > Mail/inbox/cur anymore:
> >
> >
> > aborghgr at mypc~$ ls -l Mail/inbox/
> > ls: cannot access Mail/inbox/cur: No such file or directory
> > total 8
> > d????????? ? ?        ?          ?                ? cur
> > drwx------ 2 aborghgr slocate 4096 2005-07-08 13:23 new
> > drwx------ 2 aborghgr slocate 4096 2008-04-24 10:24 tmp
> >
> > Is this an nfs problem, or is kmail actually destroying my maildirs?
>
> No user-space application can corrupt a filesystem (unless there's a bug
> in the filesystem code). So if even 'ls' doesn't work properly for you
> then you do indeed seem to have serious problems. But those problems
> cannot be caused by KMail (unless you run it as root). It's much more
> likely an nfs problem.
>

Thanks, that's what I feared. Any ideas on why kmail triggers this problem
quite reliably? I've never had this problem appear when moving files around
in a shell or using konqueror. Is kmail's file access method fundamentally
different? Some special requirements regarding synchronization or
something?

-- 
Alex Borghgraef
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