Kmail corruption of emails - help

[Derek Broughton]

dave L wrote:

> 1. 3 emails affected - these are old and in a folder for her to keep
>     and when they all where clicked on the subject matter was changed
>     to unknowen

> *** i've found this in a forum dated 2004 cira does this still stand?
> 
> rm -f .*.index*
> 

Yes.  I haven't had problems for a long time, but I used to have this sort
of problem.  Step #1 - ANY time you see a corrupted Subject, exit KMail
immediately, _then_ delete all the .index files.  KMail will always rebuild
them if they're missing.
-- 
derek