From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LcCQv-0006Bb-FJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:35:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F078E040F; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:35:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f168.google.com (mail-ew0-f168.google.com [209.85.219.168]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04219E040F for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:35:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy12 with SMTP id 12so572939ewy.10 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:35:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=QglpDCs77a3VqCmT0mNHsSXntOb8XgyeExUhNH9eQx0=; b=xD9EKhW11MRNCKMsMFTlNUPI6CjagK3aldJXuN8d7TFBg/5rNAAgwztGY882/XleQw wRpTFwjBUVLEzzjym3VmgXj616W/J8zo9w42lUrNc3CpH78OwzRq8QrhhZPDoPXPI9Qd xZJhTHD/QROZhRPvmDEyvU9sEOjKCDMFZZdd4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=ezBYyg/JTw2G8JXRdAOKQzxfeXjdU7UqSS/GEnvPA4DG6/H9kENPVbatfpGYn0TWUw 5ZH9kUXz7IxTUAXKuagDpktij8rIIr6HxTfxiReK8NAQrMkLrLzC9vwVT2bMWCeZQu6t 3+jP/cF8oO5j8PGvzUbCFlCaDpPHQFAc3qxos= Received: by 10.210.139.15 with SMTP id m15mr235864ebd.174.1235540146420; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:35:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-140-121-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.140.121]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm927283eya.46.2009.02.24.21.35.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:35:46 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Orphan e-mail message in kmail Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:53:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.0 (Linux/2.6.28-gentoo; KDE/4.2.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <200902241718.03576.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <200902241718.03576.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902242053.40001.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: ebea9682-3651-48ad-82bc-d64b924ec0f4 X-Archives-Hash: b735e4fb153fb509e72ac806d7089574 On Tuesday 24 February 2009 19:18:03 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. You are probably using maildir for your mail - it's the default. Shut down kmail completely. Go to ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail//cur, and delete the actual file. grep can help you find it even if only by identifying the files that isn't it. Then delete the relevant index files in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail. Your inbox for example is called .inbox.index.* and there will be three of them. Restart kmail, it will rebuild it's indexes and all will be well. (With KDE-4, change those paths to ~/.kde4/.... > 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. Don't delete your home dir! kmail keeps it's mail there and you will lose the lot. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com