[Discuss] Problem with Kmail

[Ryan Steele]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Jan Felix Krutsch
<linux at grizzly-media.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem with Kmail in Debian 5.02 with KDE 3.
>
> After I canceled the sending of an eMail because it did not continue to
> upload, the mail remained in the outbox and it was not possible to move it to
> the trash. The "moving to trash" command was and gets still just ignored - no
> error message or anything. If I select "move to trash" it get's strikethrough
> (or crossed out how ever it's correct to say in english) but if I select a
> different folder and get back to outbox it's without the line through and
> nothing was happening.
> I went to /home/username/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/outbox/cur and deleted the
> file (that email - there was no other mail in outbox at that time) there but
> without success.
> There is still an email remaining in outbox without any information:
> No Text, Subject - unknown, Sender - unknown, Receiver - unknown and Date -
> unknown.
> It isn't possible to move it to the trash and is blocking the sending of any
> other email.
> I have no clue why it got stuck there in the first place, never had this
> problem ever before.
> Does anyone know where the info about this mail is stored and how I can remove
> it?

Hi Felix,

I'm not familiar with Kmail but it sounds like you need to rebuild the
index. Have a look at the following FAQ entry:

http://userbase.kde.org/KMail/FAQs_Hints_and_Tips#Problem:_You_are_losing_mail

-- 
Ryan Steele - rgsteele at gmail.com