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Iskendar

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Wednesday, April 23rd 2008, 12:41pm

Kmail crashes after syncing mail directories

Hi all,

Ever since upgrading from Fedora 6 to Fedora 8, kmail has been crashing a lot. It runs fine for some time, but after a while when opening a folder or subfolder, I get an error popup of the type:

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Error opening /home/myhome/Mail/sent-mail/cur; either this is not a valid maildir folder, or you do not have sufficient access permissions.


This then happens a few times, and after a short time, I get a different error popup, and kmail/kontact crashes:

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KMail encountered a fatal error and will terminate now. The error was: Could not sync maildir folder.


Investigating the offending directories in konsole returns nothing out of the ordinary: they're perfectly normal directories, with normal mail files in them, which I can read without any problem. Sometimes, the problem goes away after a few times restarting kontact or kmail, I'm using kmail 1.9.9 in kontact 1.2.9, with kde 3.5.9-5.fc8 on Fedora 8. Any ideas on what may cause this?
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Friday, April 25th 2008, 9:46am

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:


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mylogin@mypc~$ ls -l Mail/inbox/
ls: cannot access Mail/inbox/cur: No such file or directory
total 8
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? cur
drwx------ 2 mylogin slocate 4096 2005-07-08 13:23 new
drwx------ 2 mylogin slocate 4096 2008-04-24 10:24 tmp


Is this an nfs problem, or is kmail actually destroying my maildirs?
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