broken message in Kmail

[Peter Klaassen]

Op Saturday 18 October 2008 17:58:25 schreef Sylviane et Perry White:
> On Saturday 18 October 2008 16:50, Peter Klaassen wrote:
> > How can one get ride a broken message in the in box.
> > It can not be deleted, copied or moved.
> > the moment you try something the messageheader is display
> > with a horizontal line through it.
> >
> > after reentering the in box the horizontal line is gone,
> > but still no changes or deletions are possible.
> >
> > any suggestions?
> >
> > --
> > Peter
> > Registered Linux user # 458207
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> See if you can copy ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/"yourFolder"/cur
> (or wherever your file is) with konquereor or a terminal.
> If that works, and to be on the safe side I suggest you first backup the
> whole kmail folder.
>
> The problem is that the files in those .../mail/...folders don't appear
> with their name, so to isolate your broken message you could create a
> "newYourFolder" in KMail and move all messages (but the faulty one) from
> "yourFolder" to there.
>
> Then, after having closed KMail, you could probably delete your file with
> Konq.
>
>
> HTH		Perry
>
>
>
> --
> BOFH excuse #6: global warming

Thanks Perry,

In .../cur the inboxfiles are listed seperatedly but not with a name.
just used krusader to find the right one, exited kmail, deleted it, and 
started kmail again and it was gone.


-- 
Peter 
Registered Linux user # 458207