On Sunday 31 March 2019 09:26:27 Gene Heskett wrote:
> I just stopped it, reinstalled everything kmail related in a synaptic
> search, and restarted it from the tde menu. It immediately reported two
> bad indices, for folders emc and spam-hold, and took 32 minutes to scan
> those 2 folders and open its gui.
>
> I own as gene:gene with perms from 600 to 644 in the /home/gene/Mail
> subdir. It is NOT updating now for 4 days, the files
> in /home/gene/Mail/emc/cur to indicate read or important by appending
> the
> ':2,S' or ':2,RS' but it is generating new indices, 2 of them everytime
> it tries to scan that folder, so it CAN create/write to that folder.
>
> There are around 60100 messages in that folder, and the indice files are
>  drwxr-xr-x   5 gene gene     4096 Mar 31 12:08 emc
> -rw-------   1 gene gene 44551163 Mar 31 12:08 .emc.index
> -rw-r--r--   1 gene gene   240389 Mar 31 12:08 .emc.index.ids
>
> These 2 files have been nuked to see if a rebuild fixes it, no.
> And now everthing kmail, about 8 packages, has been re-installed from the
> local archive since the mirror is missing now for several days.
>
> Is there a fix?  Or can it be fixed short of installing a stretch
> netinstall on a new drive?
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

You mention Stretch. Is that what you are running now? (or perhaps ascii, 
since you mention netinstall?) I seem to recall that you were still running 
Wheezy. 

I bring up this question because I haven't been able to upgrade to 
stretch/ascii for similar reasons, but am still stuck with jessie. It runs 
great now (after a long process of pruning, tweaking, grooming and other 
fiddling round); but when I try to upgrade to stretch/ascii, it's always 
these same few problems that prevent my continuing, and Kmail is one of the 
big problems. 

When I boot up now (in Devuan Jessie), I get an error window about rebuilding 
indices, etc. (which, I admit, bothers me); but then, I click on a button to 
rebuild, and it's done quickly and painlessly, so it doesn't bother me enough 
to worry, cuz I gots all my emails and that's what matters for NOW. But 
later ... when at last I am forced to upgrade ... ? In stretch/ascii, though, 
I don't even have this option; I just don't have a working Kmail. 

My other issue is with wireless networking, which is unavailable to me in 
ascii/stretch, due to some renaming of the wifi interface (or a deeper issue, 
perhaps) from wlan0 (in jessie) to wlx00027288d1fd (in stretch/ascii). This 
is probably an issue unrelated to Kmail, but maybe not? Also, I cannot tell 
if it is a problem only with TDE, or is more an issue with Devuan, or the 
Ascii release. 

In any case, I would like someday to upgrade to Devuan Ascii, and maybe go 
even farther, to Buster, etc. So I want to solve these problems now, so that 
later I won't be lost in the wilderness without a working computer. 

Bill