Kmail - greyed out emails

[Ianseeks]

On Saturday, 2 April 2022 12:11:51 BST Anders Lund wrote:
> One nice thing with akonadi is akonadictl, which allows you to do stuff from 
> the commandline. Like
> $ akonacictl fsck
> $akonadictl vacuum
> 
> That may help, first one checks and possibly repairs the internal storage, the 
> second one removes empty rows from the database, making things faster and 
> smoother.

Thanks Anders.  That was the first thing i tried but no luck.

> Kindly,
> Anders
> 
> lørdag den 2. april 2022 10.24.40 CEST skrev Ianseeks:
> > On Tuesday, 29 March 2022 14:59:03 BST Erik Quaeghebeur wrote:
> > > Dear Ian,
> > > 
> > > > I've got a weird situation in kmail with one email […]
> > > > 
> > > > Its repeated 15 times, there are 4 single copies in the local folder and
> > > > one copy with the rest below it as a thread. […]
> > > > 
> > > > They are all greyed out and I can't select any of them to delete them.
> > > > 
> > > > Any ideas how i can remove them?
> > > 
> > > One possibility is that the mails got the \Deleted flag set in some way.
> > > With akonadiconsole it is possible to delete such mails o remove their
> > > \Deleted flag.
> > > 
> > > So install akonadiconsole if you do not have it already. Then open the
> > > browser tab, navigate to the folder where the greyed=out mails are
> > > present. Change the view as necessary to find the mails that are greyed
> > > out in KMail. You can select all of them and right click. In the context
> > > menu that appears, you have the option to delete them. You can also,
> > > after selecting one mail, below right remove the \Deleted flag from a
> > > mail, if present (do not forget to press Save).
> > > 
> > > If a \Deleted flag being set is not the issue, I do not know what could be
> > > the issue.
> > None of the greyed out emails show up in the browser, in fact no emails show
> > in that folder at all even though there are lots there. Unfortunately i
> > don't know much about akonadiconsole.
> > 
> > Looks like i'll have to delete the akonadi folder and let it rebuild at some
> > point.
> > > Success,
> > > 
> > > Erik
> 
> 
> 
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