[ale] Kmail and Spam

[Jim Philips]

There have been questions about this on the kde-linux list. The usual response 
is: Go to your Mail directory and delete all *.index files and restart KDE. 
This problem has been around for a couple of years. I don't know why they 
can't fix it. I get it too.

On Wednesday 02 November 2005 14:00, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> I've been getting what I assume is the same thing for a couple days, now.
> No content, no subject. Filling up my mailbox.
>
> I just guessed that there was a new Microsoft Outlook virus, though I
> haven't heard about it.
>
> Michael
>
> On 11/1/05, Christopher Ness <mness215 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > I know I should just be thankful that Linux is immune to this crap, but I
> > can't help wondering what I am being bombarded with.
> >
> > Lately I have been getting a half dozen or more messages a day that kmail
> > simply barfs on, and puts in the inbox as "No Subject" and the sender as
> > "Unknown". Viewing the message source gives me a clue -
> > "X-Comment: Sending client does not conform to RFC822 minimum
> > requirements X-Comment: Date has been added by Maillennium".
> >
> > Some kind of Spam or Worm is trying to get me. But beyond that...
> > Anybody know what is going on?
> > --
> > Chris Ness
> > mailto:cness at earthlink.net All jobs are equally easy to
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~cness the person not doing the work.
> > Holt's Law
> >
> >
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