On Sat March 21 2009, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > When Kmail crashes, as it often does, it just goes "poof". Regardless > of if run directly or via Kontact. With or without kdepim-debuginfo, > and even if run from Konsole. > > As of tonight it crashed once, and now just won't open messages I > click on, with no visible errors. I've had this happen with individual messages. One message would be problematic, and it was a real pain to get around (I'd have to find a way to mark it read without entering the folder or some such...) I can't say what fixed the issue, but, I would guess it may have been an update. Parenthetically, I'd gotten to the point where I was beginning to cast about for alternatives to Kmail, even though it's feature set makes it my favored email client. I even set up Evolution on a recent VM just to see if it had improved (it hadn't - so many little things in Kmail that makes it extremely configurable and fast are missing in Evolution). Several issues I've brought up on the list were beginning to drive me crazy, such as the extremely long indexing operation that went on everytime I entered a new folder (up to over ten seconds at one point, and I have about 30 folders in any given installation)... Suddenly, all these problem appear to have vanished. Kmail has stopped crashing, browsing from folder to folder has become nearly instantaneous, etc... I wish I could offer more, but, I haven't any idea why this has improved so dramatically...I will say that on this particular machine, I recently moved my drives from an older dual-core CPU with one GB of ram, to a much newer quad-core with 4 GB - it this is the sole reason for my Kmail issues going away, that says one thing. I'll have to check my other machines later to see if that's the case. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
