Deleting "stuck" outbox mail in Kmail

KDE's native email client, Kmail, is a wonderful piece of work. Not least, it's integrated into the OS, which means it loads quick and acts quick. You may recognise such a benefit from Internet Explorer 5 and 6, which were similarly integrated and ran like a Ford Transit round the Nürburgring. I have had the odd problem with Kmail though, and the main one recently has been this:

Once in a while, when sending an email, the send fails, and what looks like a header-only copy of the mail is left in the Outbox. The bad part is that it's impossible to delete it or move it to Trash, and Kmail won't send any other outbound messages until that one is gone, so you're stuck.

The cure is pretty simple. I'm using Kubuntu, but I'm pretty sure it'll be the same for other distros. What you want to do is head to ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/outbox/cur, which is where your outgoing mails are stored. You can open any of the files - they'll open in Kmail - to find the problematic message, then just delete that file and start up Kmail again.

In Linux distros (and Mac OS X, assumedly), this little trick should work whenever you need to delete a local email manually, although you'll have to find where the mail directory is first.

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doesn't always fix the problem

Hey,

I've been fighting one of these stuck messages in my outbox for a while now.
Deleting the message from that folder was the first thing I tried; clearly that failed.
Right now, the message has no subject, no sender, no receiver... nothing.
But it's still there.

Any ideas?