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dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

Posts: 3,378

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kmail - ispell-trouble - a crash report: NO LOSS OF DATA!

while composing 4 emails, somehow ispell got confused and kmail interface started blinking and destabilizing

a ps -e gave me 4 ispell processes that are defunct

after killing them, kmail stayed the same destabilized and i had to kill it too :-(

ok, after not having any kmail process or ispell process in ps fax, i run kmail again

WOW!  :shock:  8)  everything back! no loss at all, all my composing emails back and at state i last typed - i'm impressed! (however, ispell didn't load at all any more, but that's no loss, as i quite never listen to its suggestions)

i admit, that the last time i had trouble with kmail it was version 1.2, so long time i had never trouble and the reports of outlook and other client users loosing data scared me having my email client crashed, but this is impressive in my eyes: i sent -KILL to kmail and it still managed to keep all my data

congratulations to Kmail authors! (not for ispell-trouble, but for no data loss)

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tpowa

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From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,322

Re: kmail - ispell-trouble - a crash report: NO LOSS OF DATA!

have a look at your home directory while composing you will find files called dead.letter that are your emails  :twisted:
they are not really dead ;-)

dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

Posts: 3,378

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Re: kmail - ispell-trouble - a crash report: NO LOSS OF DATA!

have a look at your home directory while composing you will find files called dead.letter that are your emails  :twisted:
they are not really dead ;-)

it got repaired itself - no dead.letter's around

what a great software!

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