'find' command messed up 'kmail'
 

OpenSuse 11.2

I followed this from LXer article:
I ran the above two find commands as a normal user.

Now when I open Kmail, it says:
Help !! Help !!

Create that folder and set permission and then run kmail again

i not sure it will help you or not.

Hi,

You just found out the hard way that an empty folder isn't necessarily a useless folder....

Can't you recreate the folder: mkdir -p /home/anisha/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail/inbox/new? I'm not sure if the permissions will be correct, but you might have another user with the same dir structure you can look at.

Hope this helps.

Thanks to sem007 as well as druuna.

Your suggestions worked. I created a new and a tmp folder with the appropriate permissions in the following folders:
'inbox'
'sent-mail'
'drafts'
'trash'

and now I am able to start Kmail.

But when I tried to delete a mail, it said
I am sure there is no space problem but something else which is causing this error.

Kindly help.

This article is posted on News section of LQ.

Can I not trust that even now :banghead:

take a look

http://readlist.com/lists/suse.com/s.../12/62615.html

it might help you.

Short answer: No. The article should have mentioned that certain folders can be empty but still need to be there.

In the case of the new folder: New mail is picked up and placed in the new folder. You open your mailer, read the mail and move or delete it. End result: A legitimate empty new folder.

I'm not a kmail user and can only give you some pointers:
- did you restart kmail after fiddling with the dir structure,
- re-check if all dirs are present and have the correct permissions,

Hope this helps.

I think it is my fault. The article is for Ubuntu not for Suse. Ubuntu doesn't use Kmail, it uses evolution.

And I have Evolution also installed on my system and it has not been effected by that 'find' command. I can start it properly.

Hi,

I noticed that the article is Ubuntu specific, but I still think it should have mentioned the existence of legitimate empty folders in case someone uses the find command for other purposes then mentioned in the article. They do mention that you should not run this from the root dir (/), a small addition to that would have been nice.

Don't know if you solved your kmail problem, but maybe this will help: The KMail Handbook

Thanks for replying,

I didn't solve my problem yet because it needs a reboot, I am in middle of some work right now.

I'll look in the handbook and see if it helps.
Thanks again.

I am thinking of writing a review on that article in LXer ;)