[kdepim-users] What causes a subject to be visible only in the headers?

[Anne Wilson]

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On 01/10/12 22:21, Andras Mantia wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>> 
>> I have three messages that were moved by hand into a folder.  In 
>> the message list they show no subject.  One of them is
>> completely blank no matter what you do - fortunately it wasn't
>> too important, because it looks to be totally lost.  The other
>> two show no subject or sender. They show today's date, which is
>> totally wrong. However, the preview pane displays both of them
>> perfectly, including the original date in August.
>> 
>> I don't suppose there is much we can do about this, but I do 
>> wonder what caused it.
> 
> Seems that somehow the metadata associated with the email got lost
> or damaged. I can't say why it happened. Losing the body on copy
> was possible until recently (a few days ago) IF the account from
> where you copied was offline (local accounts, like a maildir folder
> can also be offline). The header should have not been lost though.
> 
To be honest, I've been moving things about so much this week that I
can't reliably tell you what happened, so the chances of learning
something are small.  I can't find the two mails that had body but no
subject at all in ~/Maildir.  I did find the one that had neither
subject nor body.  If it is at all likely to help I'll send that one
to you.
> 
> If the problematic mails are in a maildir folder, locate them on
> the disk and see their contents. Or even try to copy (on the disk,
> not in kmail) to another maildir folder and later sync that folder
> in kmail. If the content is not sensitive, you can even send the
> mail to me and I'll verify if it looks ok or it is damaged.
> 
All the messages were still on my gmail account, so it was easy to
simply copy them across.  I've been fighting a new IMAP server setup,
so my own server was somewhat out of sync, and I simply wanted to copy
across the missing pieces.

- From my point of view, there's no longer a problem.  If there is
something to be gained by pursuing this, just let me know.

Anne
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