kmail lost some emails!

[Luca Ferrari]

On Tuesday 13 November 2007 Luca Ferrari's cat, walking on the keyboard, 
wrote:
> Hi all,
> hope someone can help me. Today my disk run out of quota while kmail was
> opened. All the emails in a local folder disappeared, while the other
> folders seems to be intact. Even reopening kmail does not produce any
> effect: only one folder seems damaged. The folder has other subfolders that
> contain mails that are displayed. Is there any way to repair the situation
> (hoping the emails were not effectively lost)?

I found how to do (kmail for kde 3.5.8): I deleted the .<folderName>.index.* 
files in $HOME/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail and my emails appeared again.

Thanks,
Luca