Re: Undeletable incoming message in Kmail (KDE3)

At 15:36:02 on Thursday Thursday 21 May 2009, Werner Joss 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Am Thursday 21 May 2009 14:04:38 schrieb Stan Goodman:
> > 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?
>
> dunno :)
> to be honest, I never saw or used this option, either.
> just do it on the CLI (or in konqueror):
> delete all .*.index.* files in your mail folder, with kmail not
> running, of course.
> index files will be recreated at next start and all should be fine.
> be sure to backup your mail folder _before_ this, though.

I may do that.

This very same phenomenon has happened two or three times before since I 
first came aboard with Linux (openSuSE) just over a year ago. The 
previous instances eventually went away by themselves, and I may just 
give that a chance to happen again.

If it is really true that only now has Kmail been endowed with a 
convenient mechanism for reindexing, it is remarkable, but better late 
than never. Even PolarBar Mailer had it many years ago.


-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel