corrupted: kmailrc contains html code ?!

[Till Krech]

On Saturday 20 July 2002 16:30, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 04:27:56PM +0200, Till Krech wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > in the recent time, I lost my kmailrc two times and had to setup kmail
> > again. The very strange thing:
> > kmailrc contained the lines of a html page which I viewed with konqueror.
> > The lines seem to be reformatted. All beginning whitespace is stripped
> > from the html. Basically, the beginning of kmailrc up to section
> > [General] is replaced by the contents of this html page.
> > The html is not contained in any mail, I received.
> >
> > Does anyone have a clue how this could happen ?
>
> Filesystem corruption?
>
> (had a crash in the past?)

Could be a reason. Sometimes my machine halts when logging out or switching 
to another virtual terminal. This seems to be related to the NVIDIA kernel module.
But this wouldn't explain the trimmed lines. 
It looks as if the lines have been written from corrupted memory 
into the config file, beeing processed a bit.
Another hint:
there seem to be only lines from the html in kmailrc which contain the '=' character. Example lines:

<span class="fineblue"> Size 20x20</span>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0 width=800>
<table width="222" height="179" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" background="images/checker.gif">
<td align="right" class="blue">MM-Status: released</td>
<td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><img src="images/spacer.gif" width="19" height="1"></td>

So, all lines follow the 'key=value' pattern.

regards, till
  
>
> Simon

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