Re: Undeletable incoming message in Kmail (KDE3)

At 14:39:17 on Thursday Thursday 21 May 2009, Werner Joss 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Am Thursday 21 May 2009 13:25:25 schrieb Stan Goodman:
> > Yesterday a message arrive, and appears in the inbox showing the
> > correct date, but it is stored at the very bottom of the Order of
> > Arrival column, as it is older than messages that arrived months ago.
> > It is shown with an empty body; View > Headers > All headers also
> > shows no headers, but the Message List window knows its Subject,
> > Sender, Receiver, and date/time of arrival. I have found no way to
> > delete it: an attempt to do so causes a strikeout line to appear
> > through it, but the message remains in the message list; after a
> > time, the strikeout is gone, and the message itself continues to be
> > displayed in the list as before (as Unread).
> >
> > How can I remove this ghost?
>
> looks like your index files are corrupted - see
> http://www.nabble.com/KMail-rebuild-index-td22140021.html

The thread at that URL shows the same problem. It indicates that: "to fix 
the problem in my inbox by right-clicking the folder and 
selecting "Rebuild Index". 

There must be some mistake however. Right-clicking the inbox folder in the 
folder-list window does not offer an option "Rebuild Index". Now I have a 
second question -- Why doesn't it?

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel