Gene Heskett wrote:

> 3 hours later its behaving itself. Nothing from kmail is now anywhere
> near the top of an htop list. �cpu temps are down about 8C. �I think
> I've fixed it!

Gene, it is what I said before - you should never ever mess up with the
Maildir content, except via a single interface, be it imap, or kmail.
Let only one application work at a time.

regards