[Solved] Corrupt Kmail Inbox

[Bolly]

My Kmail Inbox is corrupted, all the messages received are empty and the 'Subject' is (No Subject), 'Sender' and 'Date' are (Unknown). If I forwarded the message it gave a date of 2106 but still a blank message, this has now changed and newer messages have the date as 1970

All the messages I have filtered to other folders on receipt, such as 'Family' or 'Friends', are not corrupted, it is only the Inbox messages and all are effected. I've installed Claws and all is fine there, as are all my messages using Thunderbird on my Vista partition.

It seems I need to delete some files to recreate the Inbox- can anyone confirm which they should be? Are they:

Home>.kde>share>apps>kmail>mail>.inbox.index

and/ or

.....>.inbox.index.ids?

Are there any other files to delete?

Also, do I need to delete the Inbox in Kmail itself or will deleting the files above do that for me, and rebuild the Inbox?

I've moved all the uncorrupted emails to another folder and as I dual-boot with Vista I haven't actually lost anything, but it would be nice to have a clean Inbox in Kmail

Specs:

Kubuntu 10.10
KDE 4.6.2
Kontact 4.4.9

[claydoh]

Re: Corrupt Kmail Inbox

You probably don't have to delete anything, just right-click on the folder from within kmail, select properties, then maintenance, and recreate the index.

[Bolly]

[Solved] Re: Corrupt Kmail Inbox

Thank you for the reply Claydoh, I forgot to say that I had tried that and it didn't help. But I tried again after you reminded me: and it worked that time

[claydoh]

Re: [Solved] Corrupt Kmail Inbox

glad it worked for you. I had to dig the memory for that one, it happened to me a long time ago. Probably in the KDE2 to KDE3 transition.