[clug-talk] KMail "No Subject" appears when clicking on an email message

[Neil Bower]

On Tuesday 20 June 2006 23:21, Dave Watkins - CLUG wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Using KMail on SUSE 8.x.
>
> When I click on an message in a folder, inbox, whatever I get "No Subject"
> and the message basically disappears.
>
> So, if I browse to file:/home/dave/Mail
>
> I have the following folder, well, many folders but let's use this as an
> example.
>
> In the Mail folder I have a folder called Beth, a file called .beth.index a
> file called .beth.index.ids a folder called .beth.index.sorted

If I recall from previous discussions, you will need to delete "index" files.  
This should force Kmail to re-index the files.

> So, So, do I just delete the files with foldername.index i.e. beth.index
> and restart KMail to resolve this issue?
>
> Or do I have to delete the others files with index in them also?
>
> There are messages in the various folders /cur folder.
>
> > Am I correct in assuming that the "index" files referred to are the
> > ones ending in .index? There are files named as follows for each
> > folder I have created:


Make a backup of the mail directory and try it.  :-)

Neil
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