Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (160 mails)

[Guenter Lichtenberg <lichten@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 24 May 2005 10:00, Henk Weebers wrote:
> Last Sunday kmail stuck in searching mails in a map. So I asked that
> window to close the kmail application. With success. But after
> restarting kmail, I got an error that Kmail couldn't make the map
> $HOME/Mail. Off course that map is present and contains the existing mails.
>
> The same error exists on all other users. What could be wrong?
>
> Henk

Hi Henk -
	I assume with 'map' you mean folder or directory. If so, my answer below to 
another posting might help:

I had the same after going to 3.4beta and then back again to 3.3. Somehow 
kmail did not know the $HOME environment variable anymore - or the config 
file was changed and $HOME was inserted. I solved it by substituting '$HOME' 
in .kde/share/config/kmailrc with the explicit path to the home directory.

This may also help in your case. Maybe there is a better way to solve it by 
making kmail aware of the environment variables, but I haven't found it...

Maybe it is possible to change this in a central setting for all users on your 
machine, but I don't know where (maybe some file in <your 
KDEDIR>/share/config). If this is not possible you would have to do it for 
all users...

Cheers
gl

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