Gene Heskett wrote:

> Well, since this is kmail 1.9, mostly written in 32 bit days, and moving
> about half of the debian list to an out of kmail directory, the problem
> has not re-surfaced, so I am more than ever convinced its triggered by a
> 32 bit overflow someplace.
> 
> Where, I've no clue, but I suspect a concerted effort to bring it into
> the 64 bit world would pay stability dividends over the next several
> years.

Might be - who knows - I looked over it - to understand, one needs the
design document or some time to understand how kmail is working. As it is
not a simple application the time needed is also not an hour or two.

However when you look at the properties of one directory - there is the
option to enable/disable indexing. Have you seen this? 

If your archive is not changing I guess also indexing is not needed there,
but not sure.