kmail lost old folders/emails

John Walsh dear_grommet at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 2 09:57:01 UTC 2004


Hi,

wrt: kmail

I had FC1 as per the CD ISO's installed and working for a day, I had coppied 
my old
user accounts (from RH9.0) accross - totally replacing anything Fedora 
created.

When I login, it says the 'Desktop' has changed, and its makes a link to the 
old one,
and thats fine.

When I ran Kmail, all was well - it saw all the folders and emails I had 
before.

Then yesterday I got all the latest packages through up2date:

yum fedora-core-1 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/$ARCH/os/
yum updates-released 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/$ARCH/
#yum updates-testing http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-1

I don't think there was a new kmail, but I don't know if it is included as 
part of another rpm...

Anyway, while it was downloading the rpm's (so it had not even installed 
them yet, but maybe
rhn-applet-2.1.4-3.i386.rpm had been installed), I had kmail open and things 
started to
go wrong.

First I got error messages when clicking on an existing folder, that it 
could not read it, because
it was either not in 'maildir' format, or it did not have permissions to 
read it (this is as root).

So I closed kmail and re-opened it - now it only has the default folders and 
all the existing
ones don't show up.

Even in the inbox, new emails show up, but the existing old ones (that are 
in the correct
place) do not show up.

All the filters and ID's are still in kmail, just fine, its just the folders 
and emails that have gone.

Another note: that link to the old desktop that was made at the start, also 
dissapeared.

Anyone any ideas ? Or have any questions ?

Thanks,
John.

ps. after the up2date, I don't use the latest kernel because it does not see 
the mouse, so I'm
still running the original FC1.0 kernel 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl

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