[kdepim-users] Untouchable e-mails in KMail - SOLVED

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Sonntag, 2. März 2014, 23:20:02 schrieb Peter Humphrey:
> On Wednesday 26 Feb 2014 14:11:05 I wrote:
> > I have a very-low-traffic e-mail folder which received a message yesterday
> > via my ISP's POP3 service. At intervals after that I noticed two
> > duplicates, then two more and so on until I had 30 of them by this
> > morning.
> > 
> > I can delete all of the duplicates except what I assume was the first
> > pair.
> > They remain in place, marked unread, and when I run the dedup process
> > (Folder
> > 
> > > Remove duplicate messages) I get this error once for each of them:
> > 	"Unable to fetch item from backend (collection 15) : Unable to retrieve
> > 	item from resource: Invalid item retrieved"
> > 
> > The real message had a .doc attachment, probably produced by a version of
> > MS Word. That document opens nicely in Libre Office.
> > 
> > It looks as though I need to dig into the works to find and remove the
> > offending entries in whatever database is involved - can anyone advise me?
> 
> For posterity I should record how this was fixed.
> 
> The problem was that the .Folder.directory above the strangely misbehaving
> Folder was missing, so that the folder's messages existed in the database
> but not in the file tree. This exposed some weird fault in KMail or its
> friends.
> 
> The fix was to create the proper directory structure manually (after
> akonadictl stop - thanks Kevin). After that and logging out and in again
> everything was working as expected. There's some clever stuff in this
> program.
> 
> Anyway, case closed.

Did it create the mails as files in that newly created folder then or are the 
mails still just in the database?

Thanks,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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