kmail continues to show read messages as unread

[Ianseeks]

On Thursday, 12 August 2021 19:38:24 BST John White wrote:
> This morning kmail properly showed 3 or 4 emails received today as unread but 
> improperly showed 30 emails received last month as unread.
> 
> Has been happening for months. Quite a bother.
> 
> I have heard that it might help if I did the following:
> 
> just trash
> ~/.local/share/akonadi*
> ~/.local/share/kmail*
> ~/.config/akonadi*
> ~/.config/kmail*
> ~/.cache/akonadi*
> 
> But I am afraid this might do permanent damage.  I need to keep the old emails.
> 
> Any suggestions?    
> 
> 
You'll need to let everyone know what version of software you are using. I had this problem a few years ago when using mysql as the backend. I'm also on the latest version of kmail now with postgresql as the back end.

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