On Saturday 29 September 2012 23:33:40 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Hi again!
>
> On 29 September 2012 23:00, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@...> wrote:
> > On 25 September 2012 19:53, leee <leee@...> wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 25 September 2012 17:07:58 Lisi wrote:
> >>> On Monday 24 September 2012 00:24:38 Slávek Banko wrote:
> >>> > On Monday 24 of September 2012 01:03:29 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >>> > > I am restoring my KMail details from Lenny with KDE 3.5.10 to
> >>> > > Squeeze with TDE 3.5.13, patched with Slávek's patches.
> >>
> >> then
> >> check to see where 'folders[$e]' is pointing.
> >
> > folders[$e]=$HOME/Mail
>
> The email, to which this is a reply, had been sitting there waiting to
> be sent, and I clicked send a little too automatically just now.  I
> actually wrote it many hours ago and I have since tried to open KMail.
>
> Although it is clearly finding the right folder, it is not opening.  I
> get the following error message:
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> Problem with mail indices - KMail
>
> There is a problem with the mail index of the following folders, the
> indices will now be regenerated.
>
> This can happen because the index files are out of date, missing or
> corrupted.
>
> Contact your administrator if this happens frequently.
>
> Some information, like status flags might get lost.
> ___________________________
>
> Debian
> inbox
> SouthWalesLUG
> Shopping
> _________________________
>
>
> Since both Werner (on a previous occasion) and every reference I
> followed up in Google said that indices could be removed and would
> regenerate, I have been trying to delete them and get KMail to
> regenerate them.  I have used Werner's
>
> rm -rf *.index
>
> command - several times , for good measure.  I have been through my
> Debian, inbox, SouthWalesLUG and Shopping folders individually.  I am
> now going manually through everything.  I know that there were index
> files, but have not so far found a single one on my manual trawl.
>
> This is ridiculous.  So near and yet so far...
>
> Since indices are clearly the problem, one way or another, and
> everyone seems to agree that indices can be deleted and will then
> regenerate, this _must_ be soluble.
>
> Has any of you helpful people any idea what I could try next?  (Apart
> from finishing the very slow hand-trawl through.)
>
> Lisi

Hmm... strange problem - I've had the index rebuilding message, after doing 
something similar to what you've done, but the indexes were simply rebuilt; I 
didn't have to delete anything and don't recall have problems opening any of 
the sub-folders under the top level 'Local Folders'.

As you've already deleted the *.index files then perhaps you should also 
delete the *.index.ids & *.index.sorted files too.

Have you checked the ownership and permissions of all the files & folders in 
your ~/Mail folder?  If you've done everything i.e. backing up and any 
copying under the same user then it shouldn't be an issue but as it's quite 
an odd problem it needs to be checked.

LeeE