KMail is driving me mad!

[John White]

As your friend Winston once said: "Kmail is the worst email program except all 
others."  



On Saturday, September 2, 2017 3:00:55 PM PDT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday, 31 August 2017 10:03:09 BST I wrote:
> > Now I have four duplicate pairs in my gentoo-user list's folder, but this
> > time when I try to delete any of them, or de-dup the folder, I get:
> > 
> > "Unable to fetch item from backend (collection -1) : Unable to retrieve
> > item from resource: Multiple merge candidates, aborting"
> > 
> > How can I recover from this? Other, preferably, than deleting the folder
> > and reimporting yesterday's archive, thus losing the problem messages and
> > the others that have come in since I made the archive.
> 
> I did that in the end, accepting the loss of some messages from that day
> (well, resenting it actually).
> 
> The next day it happened again!
> 
> What is the matter with this damned program?