Re: Undeletable incoming message in Kmail (KDE3.5.10-21.11)

At 14:47:24 on Thursday Thursday 21 May 2009, Bruce MacArthur 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday 21 May 2009 06:25, Stan Goodman wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Hello, Stan --
> Am I correct -- or in error -- to assume that this is an HTML message?
> Especially if it IS an HTML message, what happens when you attempt
> to "View Source"?  The first relevant thing that I would expect to
> appear is that the foreground (text) color and the background ("paper")
> color have been forced to be the same, but this "might" be conditional.
> Also, what more can you tell us concerning your environment -- the
> version of KDE and of KMail that you are using and any applicable
> filters, rules, dispositions, etc.?

As I wrote, both the body and the headers are missing (or inaccessible), 
so I would not be able to answer your question. But the specific 
correspondent, unusually for Windows users, has never sent me a message 
containing HTML formatting. This one too was likely plain-text only.

Kmail is v1.9.10. The sender is in a white list; I receive his messages 
routinely, and there has never been a problem with them. In any case, 
this message made it to the inbox, so it passed any test it encountered. 
I do not have any filters that modify message bodies or headers.

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel