Re: Index file mystery

On Monday 23 February 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 23 February 2009 18:36:37 Art Alexion wrote:
> > On Monday 23 February 2009 04:38:22 am Anne Wilson wrote:
> > >   One folder, my CentOS folder, is no longer indexed correctly.
> > >  It started yesterday, when it kept telling me that I had 9
> > > unread messages. Clicking on the folder then showed no unread
> > > messages.  Later two more messages came in, and it showed 11
> > > unread messages.  Even though I read those messages, every time
> > > the server is checked the (11) comes back.
> > >
> > > Via ssh, I renamed the CentOS index files, then started up kmail.
> > >  A new index file was formed, but there also (on the server
> > > still) (11) showed, but blanked when I clicked on the folder.
> > >
> > > Any ideas
> >
> > My diagnosis is that you are using Evolution...
> >
> > Just kidding.  This is a chronic problem with Evolution which I use
> > for my work (MS Exchange hosted) mail.
>
> It's something I've never seen before.  Although the messages had
> been marked as read both on this laptop and the netbook, when I went
> to the server I found that they were showing as New.  I marked them
> read there, and now all is well again.  Most odd, though.

Maybe uploading the "seen" state failed for those messages. Therefore 
the server still reported 11 unread messages, but KMail had remembered 
all messages as read.

I've seen something like this in Thunderbird. IIRC, marking all messages 
as unread and then as read again fixed the problem.


Regards,
Ingo

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