Re: [gentoo-user] Orphan e-mail message in kmail
On Tuesday 24 February 2009 18:53:39 Alan McKinnon wrote: 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. That did it - thanks. 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. Slip of the tongue (pen? fingers?). I meant I'd move the home directory, not remove it. Thanks again, and to Volker. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Orphan e-mail message in kmail
On Dienstag 24 Februar 2009, 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. 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. go into the mail directory and remove the index file. kmail must not running! Then start kmail and let it re-index the directory. After that you can read it, move it, remove it. Maybe just rebuilding index is enough, but I had cases in the past where that was not enough.
Re: [gentoo-user] Orphan e-mail message in kmail
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
