Hi Calvin I'm using gmail's imap to clean out the dirs from Kmail (rather than a web browser) meself. I've never seen this before. Check your settings on both kmail and your email web settings. Sorry I can't be of more help. Kate On Friday 26 October 2018, Calvin Morrison wrote: > hello, > > please see the attached image. when I have unreads in my IMAP inbox I > get these weird question mark icons. Once I have read them -> they > disappear. Am I missing a certain font set or something simple? > > Thank you all, > Calvin