KMail crashes

[Derek Broughton]

John L Fjellstad wrote:

> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> writes:
> 
>> John L Fjellstad wrote:
>>
>>> If you are using IMPAP, try to reindex your mail.  Right click on the
>>> root IMAP folder and
>>> 
>> hmmm... suspicious.  I wonder if KMail crashed :-)
> 
> Actually, I'm using Gnus for mailing lists :-)
> 
> I actually changed my mind because I realized that the OP probably
> wasn't using IMAP and I thought I cancelled the post.  Guess I sent it
> out instead.
> 
> In any case, to finish the sentence.  I had some problems earlier this
> year with kmail crashing because of the indexing.  What I did was right
> click on the root IMAP folder, trouble shoot the IMAP Cache, and then
> rebuild the index (or refresh the Cache).  It will destroy your local
> changes, but kmail won't crash again.
> 
Thanks for that - I'm glad I encouraged you to complete the post.  I do
occasionally have KMail fail, and I always use IMAP, so I'll try this next
time.
-- 
derek