Kmail - greyed out emails

[Erik Quaeghebeur]

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.


Success,

Erik