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.
