Kmail display many emails as blank emails

[mmodem 0]

For what i have discussed in kde-devel, kdepim and kde mailing lists, what i am about to report it is only a Mandrake/Kmail bug, that started hapening in Mandrake10.0 (in mandrake9.2 it was all ok).

 

So what happens is, that KMail display many emails (html and plain text) as balnk emails, with unknown sender and date, and with no suject, from for example mozillazine.org also from www.linuxquestions.org, display these emails as blank emails. only when i click to see the code, is that you can see something.

And these same emails retrieved from the server from Evolution are all well displayed.

 

I tried many things to see if i could put kmail displaying these emails

correctly, i chooseed using a maildir folder instead of an mbox, deleted

the .index files to rebuild again by kmail, deleted the ~/.Mail dir.

Compiled kmail without the patch (Mandrake patch) that puts messages in the

folder ~/.Mail, because Mandrake uses the ~/.Mail instead of the folder

~/Mail.

Reinstalled Mandrake 10.0 in english cause it woud have something related

with the locale (language) settings, but no, nothing resolved.

 

This bug is also described by other user in http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7427

 

The main problems:

- Messages are cut off, often before the beginning of the body, as can be seen

in the message sources of the relevant messages

- Problem appears with all messages, not just HTML messages as the OP would

have one believe

- Problem is with downloading or storing messages

- Servers are POP and locally run hotwayd pop gateway for Hotmail

- /tmp is not a separate partition; / is not full (1 GiB left)

- no relevant filters are in effect

- problem still appears when logging in as another user

- deleting the .index files did not help

- maildir or mbox have no impact on the issue

 

PS: here i attach the last blank email, and the last email well displayed in kmail (when using Mandrake9.2)from mozillazine.org that was received in 4 of August of 2003. Note the text that appears is only possible to see when clicking to see the code of the message.

last_from_mozillazine.org

[mmodem 0]

No one knows how to fix this critical bug???

[tyme 0]

I didn't read your whole post before posting, sorry. I see you found a similar bug report already. I would suggest following that, as it seems like a problem with the program and not something we could help you with. my only suggestion would be to remove all kmail related settings files in your home directory. but then you might lose your email...so it's up to you.

 

chances are, this is something that Mandrake is going to have to fix and not something we could fix. We can try to find a way to work around it, but this is probably a programming error.

Edited July 1, 2004 by tyme

[mmodem 0]

I tried that and all possible and imaginary "solutions" and nothing.

For what i discussed in kde, kde-devel, kde-pim mailing lists this kmail bug only happens in mandrake10.0, because in Mandrake9.2 all functioned ok.