Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (85 mails)

[Alexander Beck-Ratzka <alexander.beck-ratzka@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 21 September 2007, Bob S wrote:
> Hello SuSE people,
>
> About the 1st of September I upgraded my KDE to 3.5.7 on 10.2
>
> After it installed Kmail would crash with a sigserv when I tried to open
> it. Had to back out to my old KDE on the disk.  Wrote to the list. Kevin
> Krammer (hope I got the name right) from KDE replied there was a problem
> with Kontact and the kdepim3 rpm effecting Kmail. It was being fixed as he
> wrote.
>
> Waited a few days and reinstalled the newer KDE upgrades with SMART. Same
> thing happened again. Kmail and Kontact would crash on opening them. Only
> this time I checked a little further and the two other users did not have
> the problem. But, I did have to back out again to be able to use Kmail
> myself.
>
> While in the upgraded state, I compared my .kde files with the other users.
> There was one significant difference. They each had a Mail directory in
> their individual Home partitions which contained their mail directories.
> While mine did not. Mine was in .kde/share/apps/kmail.   Now, I have a
> great deal of mail about half in directories and about half in mailbox
> format. Most of the mailbox stuff is pretty old but valuable to me.
>
> Is it possible that this difference I pointed out is the problem? Also, is
> it possible to convert those mailboxes to directories without doing it one
> by one?
>
> Sure would like to upgrade. Any help or ideas will sure be appreciated.
>

I've had a similar problem with Kmail some time ago; all the time I've tried 
to start it, it crashes with SIGSEGV. Nobody was able to offer an answer, but 
I was able to get rid of this problem, by changing from IMAP to POP. As it 
turned out, some Emails forced the the crash, when kmail tried to load them 
into its IMAP folders.

Cheers

Alexander
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