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



On Wednesday 23 July 2008, André Wöbbeking wrote:
> 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.

In KDE3 you can delete the index files ( .foldername.index) manually while 
KMail is not running and it will rebuild them on the next startup.

Probably do a backup of the main mail direcory first, just in case.

Depending on the version of KMail which created the main mail directory, it is 
either $HOME/Mail or $HOME/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail

Cheers,
Kevin

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