On Sunday 08 December 2019 14:34:34 Gene Heskett wrote:

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> I had stopped kmail, removed ALL index files and
> restarted kmail. Took it about 20 minutes to open a window and advise
> me 3 of the indices were old or missing, which they weren't. I let it
> run till I could see by the file times that it was in the 3rd loop of
> rebuilding them.

Some editing here to add detail

> So Just for S&G, I made a /home/gene/OldMail directory, and since the
> biggest index file was for debian-user list at nearly 10 megabytes, 
> and all the file dates  were from thanksgiving day 2018 and newer, the
> last time I had copied it to a whole new Mail dir.

> I moved anything dated   
> before Jan 1 2019 into this invisible to kmail old directory.  Before I 
> was done, kmail suddenly decided the indexes were good and shut the
> reindexing off.  And has not restarted. Yet that index file has not 
> shrunk, so I'm going to kill it and restart kmail.

And this is weird as hell!, it regenerated the exact same file at its 
original date/time 35 minutes ago. Hogged a core at a time for 3 or 4 
minutes before it opened the main gui, and then shut down the indexing 
again, acting normally. Go figure, I've used up my quota of disbelief 
for today. Might even start on my one a day beer before dinner. Time to 
go check on the missus, who didn't want any lunch at 13:00.  Do Carry 
on.

Thanks all.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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