Ghost emails

[Ianseeks]

On Tuesday, 17 May 2022 15:45:23 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 17 May 2022 08:32:35 BST Ianseeks wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 1.  This may work for you; it's what I used to do when deluged with 
> duplicates.
> 
> Stop KMail and run akonadiconsole. Taking one folder at a time, right-click on 
> it in the Browse window and delete its akonadi cache. Exit akonadiconsole, 
> akonadictl stop ... wait until it has ... akonadictl start. 
> 
> Start KMail and click on the folder you've just cleared. It should repopulate 
> from the SQL database.
> 
> Repeat for other folders.
> 
> 2.  Another trick worth trying is as follows - and it may not be safe unless 
> you have all emails stored locally, not on an IMAP server. No guarantees.
> 
> After stopping the delivery of emails, remove all duplicates from a particular 
> folder, by hand if need be, then make an archive of that folder. (You may get 
> a complaint that a message can't be archived, in which case you may still have 
> a duplicate of it.) Delete the folder, then import messages from the archive 
> you've just made*, telling it to remove duplicates. With any luck you'll then 
> have a clean folder, and it shouldn't create any more duplicates - until the 
> next time, of course.

I will give that a try. 
i've created a new user so i can still get emails and get on with life. I still have the old user and i can try that to see if it fixes it.

> *  I prefer to unpack the .tar.bz2 and input KMail folder and directory 
> structure: it's better at stripping out duplicates than just importing from 
> the archive file.
> 
> HTH.
> 
Thanks a lot for the proposed solution.

regards

Ian
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