Ghost emails

[gene heskett]

On Tuesday, 17 May 2022 09:08:50 EDT Seeker wrote:
> On Tuesday, 17 May 2022 12:49:27 BST gene heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 17 May 2022 03:32:35 EDT Ianseeks wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, 17 May 2022 08:14:33 BST Ianseeks wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday, 17 May 2022 08:07:35 BST Ian Douglas wrote:
> > > > > On Tuesday, 17 May 2022 08:56:43 SAST Ianseeks wrote:
> > > > > > Anyone have any clues?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I think you already double-checked your filters?
> > > > > 
> > > > > And all target folders exist?
> > > > > 
> > > > > And appropriate "stop filtering if this matches" ?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Cheers, Ian
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, all the advanced settings are identical for all filters, all
> > > > folders exist and all filters set to stop when matched.
> > > > 
> > > > Its duplicating emails that where filtered on arrival and are
> > > > already
> > > > in the folder.
> > > > 
> > > > thanks for the reply
> > > 
> > > Drat, everything coming in is duplicating now.  I'm going to have
> > > to
> > > delete akonadi DB and rebuild in the vain hope that will fix it.
> > 
> > And how do you do that?
> 
> akonadictl stop
> cd .local/share/
> mv akonadi akonadi_old
> akonadictl start
> then leave it to rebuild before starting kmail (i judge that by disk
> activity - there is probably a better way)
> then check your kmail configuration because if can throw default
> folders out of line like wastebin, drafts etc 

Did that once, took 3 days to clean up the mess.

> (Accounts/Identities/Advanced)
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett.
> 
> This process unfortunately did not solve this problem so i've created a
> new user.
 
And that last deletes this first and only oxygen breathing user with sudo 
privs, replacing him with a no sudo privs user.  No thanks. Creatng a new 
user is a cop-out. We should fix this one.

So, what is now wrong, and how do we fix /that/?
 
Thank you.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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