Re: [gentoo-user] Orphan e-mail message in kmail

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Dienstag 24 Februar 2009, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> After a power failure a few days ago, kmail-1.9.9 now has one message in
> one folder that can't be read, viewed, moved or deleted. It's shown at the
> top of the list instead of near the bottom, and nothing I can think of will
> make any change to it.
>
> Can anyone suggest a reasonably safe approach to getting rid of it? I don't
> mind losing it as long as I don't lose anything else.
>
> I suppose I could delete my home directory, create a new one and import
> kmail's stuff from the old to the new, together with other applications'
> stuff, but I don't know any way to import filters, and anyway it's an awful
> fag.

go into the mail directory and remove the index file. kmail must not running!
Then start kmail and let it re-index the directory. After that you can read 
it, move it, remove it.

Maybe just rebuilding index is enough, but I had cases in the past where that 
was not enough.