Re: Undeletable incoming message in Kmail (KDE3)

On Thursday 21 May 2009, Stan Goodman wrote:
> 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?

I think this option was added in KDE 4. Apparently, you are still on KDE 
3.5.

Is the inbox folder a local folder or an IMAP folder?


Regards,
Ingo

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