Re: Something odd in knail from 3.5.9 on F8

From: Tom Spink
Date: Sun May 25 2008 - 09:08:22 EST


2008/5/25 Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Greetings all;
>
> Yesterday I needed to email a patch file I had just generated to the maintainer
> of the OS for a "legacy" computer, so I fired up the new mail by clicking on
> his name in a previous email, wrote a short msg and tried to attach the patch.
> But regardless of how many times I backed out of the directory & then went back
> in, the directory listing I was being shown was exactly as it had existed about
> 36 hours ago. No new files could be seen. So I could not attach it, nor
> include it as text in that msg.
> .
> After I had sent the msg, I shut kmail down using its quit button, gave it 30
> secs to clean up and disappear from the htop list, then restarted it, at which
> point the newer and missing files were then visible and I sent the patch using
> the exact same procedure.
>
> Currently running locally built 2.6.26-rc2 for a kernel. So which direction do
> I point the accusatory finger here folks?

Hi Gene,

Are you able to reproduce the problem? Were you able to view the
"real" contents of the directory in, say, a terminal (with ls) or
Konqueror (or whatever you prefer), while KMail was acting up?

> Cheers, Gene

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Tom Spink
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