KMail crashes

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 14 May 2007, Donn wrote:
>> QGArray::at: Absolute index 0 out of range
>> KCrash: Application 'kmail' crashing...
>> ERROR: Communication problem with kmail, it probably crashed.
>>
>> Any ideas what's going on and/or what can I do?
>
>Kmail is stable like a sane penguin with both feet on the ice in Dapper!
>
>Looking at the error it mentions an index 0 being out of range - that tweaks
>my suspicions about arrays - perhaps (and it's a long shot) there is a
> folder in your kmail tree that has no messages and/or it is corrupted and
> that's chocking the app. Try to ls your way around the mail store (mine is
> in ~/Mail, but others report it being in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/....
>someplace.)
>
>Maybe that will jog another idea.
>/d

I have seen, but have only had to resort to it once, years ago, that if an 
index file got corrupted for a folder, one should manually delete them.  
Kmail will find them missing and rebuild them in a few seconds and then all 
was well.  But its been years since I had to do that.

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