possible kmail virus

[Condon Thomas A KPWA]

Lee wrote:
> Been having this problem for the two weeks. When checking E -mail in
> K Mail some of the message headers will suddenly change to "no
> subject without an orginator address or any kind of address or
> message." Delet the no subject message and K-mail drops out. When I
> bring it back up I get the orginal message header and the no subject
> header pops up somewhere else. 

I think it is a bug in Kmail itself.  I've seen this for some time now, from
a SuSE 8.0 install.  If I exit Kmail when I see the "No Subject" pop up,
then re-open Kmail it will be back to the real subject with no problems (and
no new "No Subject"s popping up).

As best I can tell this is triggered by deleting a file with a certain type
of attachment (but I haven't isolated which one or combination).  The
trashed headers appear on the next message selected.  It doesn't occur often
enough that I've spent much time tracking it, but I ran into it again this
morning.

One additional anomaly from Kmail that may be related (seems to be) is that
previously read messages seem to be marked as un-read when the crash due to
this problem occurs.


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Tom  :-})

Thomas A. Condon
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