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Re: KMail--Can't Delete Phantom Message(s)



On Wednesday 23 July 2008, Null wrote:
> Using KMail 3.5.9 from unstable.
>
> I sometimes get phantom messages, which usually have their subject
> line in strikethru. 

strikethru normally means deleting.

> These messages can't be read, moved to the 
> trash, or deleted.  Generally they are in my spam folder, but not
> always. 

Somehow the indexes got out of sync.

> They only way I have found to get rid of them is to delete 
> the folder entirely, then recreate it, or to delete the folder
> indexes.

Yep, the index must be rebuilt. In KDE4 you can do that via popup menu.

> Is anyone else having this problem?

From time to time (probably when Kontact crashes while KMail is deleting 
or moving mails?!?).


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