On Tuesday 24 February 2009 19:18:03 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > After a power failure a few days ago, kmail-1.9.9 now has one message in > one folder that can't be read, viewed, moved or deleted. It's shown at the > top of the list instead of near the bottom, and nothing I can think of will > make any change to it. > > Can anyone suggest a reasonably safe approach to getting rid of it? I don't > mind losing it as long as I don't lose anything else.
You are probably using maildir for your mail - it's the default. Shut down kmail completely. Go to ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/<folder>/cur, and delete the actual file. grep can help you find it even if only by identifying the files that isn't it. Then delete the relevant index files in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail. Your inbox for example is called .inbox.index.* and there will be three of them. Restart kmail, it will rebuild it's indexes and all will be well. (With KDE-4, change those paths to ~/.kde4/.... > I suppose I could delete my home directory, create a new one and import > kmail's stuff from the old to the new, together with other applications' > stuff, but I don't know any way to import filters, and anyway it's an awful > fag. Don't delete your home dir! kmail keeps it's mail there and you will lose the lot. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
