Re: kmail continues to show read messages as unread

bOn Saturday, August 14, 2021 10:42:48 AM PDT John White wrote:
> On Friday, August 13, 2021 8:20:41 AM PDT Anders Lund wrote:
> > fredag den 13. august 2021 16.48.10 CEST skrev John White:
> > > > > I have heard that it might help if I did the following:
> > > > > 
> > > > > just trash
> > > > > ~/.local/share/akonadi*
> > > > > ~/.local/share/kmail*
> > > > > ~/.config/akonadi*
> > > > > ~/.config/kmail*
> > > > > ~/.cache/akonadi*
> > > > > 
> > > > > But I am afraid this might do permanent damage.  I need to keep the
> > > > > old
> > > > > emails.
> > > > > b
> > > > > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > Deleting the akonadi data and config does not delete your mail. Just don't
> > delete the mail storage. I don't think deleting kmails files does any
> > good.
> > 
> > Before trying that, try running the following, preferably in a terminal:
> > 
> > b
> > 
> > Vacuum just cleans up your databases, and requires "lots of time and disk
> > space".
> > Fsck will try to fix inconsistemcies in the local storage, and also takes
> > time. Those commands spared me deleting akonadi data quite some times :)
> > 
> > Kindly,
> > Anders
> 
> Thanks Anders, but, sadly, running akonadictl vacuum and akonadictl fsck did
> not help. Though it otherwise works fine, my Kmail 5.9.3, on Debian Buster 
> continues to show old, read emails as unread. Unless someone has a better
> or different idea (I will try most anything), later today (tonight) I will
> try deleting the akonadi data and config files, assuming I can figure out
> how to do that.
> 
> Any suggestions are appreciated
> 
> John

I renamed ./local/share/akonadi/db_data to ./local/share/akonadi/erase-db_data. On 
starting kmail again kmail created a new db_data file which, eventually, seemed to 
populate the files OK.  But some old, read emails are still showing as unread when I start 
kmail in the morning.  

I see other files in ./local/share/akonadi and perhaps if I delete one or more of them it 
might help but I am concerned that I might delete my emails.

Also, I don't see an akonadi config file anywhere.  If I could find and delete it, that might 
help.

Any suggestions as to how I might better deal with this long-standing problem would be 
most appreciated.

John

John