Re: What causes a subject to be visible only in the headers?
Anne Wilson <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/10/12 22:21, Andras Mantia wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > Hi, >> >> I have three messages that were moved by hand into a folder. In >> the message list they show no subject. One of them is >> completely blank no matter what you do - fortunately it wasn't >> too important, because it looks to be totally lost. The other >> two show no subject or sender. They show today's date, which is >> totally wrong. However, the preview pane displays both of them >> perfectly, including the original date in August. >> >> I don't suppose there is much we can do about this, but I do >> wonder what caused it. > > Seems that somehow the metadata associated with the email got lost > or damaged. I can't say why it happened. Losing the body on copy > was possible until recently (a few days ago) IF the account from > where you copied was offline (local accounts, like a maildir folder > can also be offline). The header should have not been lost though. > To be honest, I've been moving things about so much this week that I can't reliably tell you what happened, so the chances of learning something are small. I can't find the two mails that had body but no subject at all in ~/Maildir. I did find the one that had neither subject nor body. If it is at all likely to help I'll send that one to you. > > If the problematic mails are in a maildir folder, locate them on > the disk and see their contents. Or even try to copy (on the disk, > not in kmail) to another maildir folder and later sync that folder > in kmail. If the content is not sensitive, you can even send the > mail to me and I'll verify if it looks ok or it is damaged. > All the messages were still on my gmail account, so it was easy to simply copy them across. I've been fighting a new IMAP server setup, so my own server was somewhat out of sync, and I simply wanted to copy across the missing pieces. - From my point of view, there's no longer a problem. If there is something to be gained by pursuing this, just let me know. Anne - -- Need KDE help? Try http://userbase.kde.org or http://forum.kde.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBqsUIACgkQj93fyh4cnBdnUACfbuGYJ2vIlCifMImLeZWo/r4V tnEAnR40Ud45hxoLjTxuwnYeEIsZs27c =GQZ8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ KDE PIM users mailing list Subscription management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users