Did you try removing the tmp kde files in /tmp along with the .mcop files in your /home directory. It could be some wanky tmp file that's causing it to behave like this. * KMcLauchlan@chrysalis-its.com (KMcLauchlan@chrysalis-its.com) [021120 11:24]: -> -> ->> -----Original Message----- ->> From: Patrick [mailto:penguin0601@earthlink.net] ->> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 3:36 PM -> ->[...] ->> Have you tried renaming your ->> /home/<user>/.kde ->> directory to something else and letting the whole thing be ->> created new ->> to see if that takes care of the problem? -> ->I renamed the /home/kmclauchlan/.kde directory, ->got out, restarted Linux and KDE, and tried KMail. -> ->RESULT: KMail started with the "Welcome" pane where -> my inbox would normally appear, which is -> expected result, since all the KDE configuration -> is now default, and my old Mail directory is -> still renamed and safely hidden. So KMail created -> new, empty, default directories. -> ->FURTHER RESULT: Then I quit the program... segfault! -> Ever since then, if I try to open the program, -> it churns for a while and then segfaults without -> ever opening, much the way it did before. -> -> ->My Outlook inbox now has 3910 messages, unsorted. ->The previous year of e-mail (70,000+ messages that I ->received in KMail up to the beginning of November ->when this segfault began) is tied up as numbered ->message files in the maildir directories ->that KMail won't open anymore. -> ->I'm going to have to give up soon, and let Outlook ->re-take ownership of my mail. ->The Exchange Server administrator is telling me that ->he is no longer willing for me to leave 4,000 ->messages on his server. Once I let Outlook sort and ->file them, and delete originals from the server, ->they'll be basically unreachable by linux ->mail if I ever get KMail working again. ->I've been hoping to get KMail fixed before I had to ->give in and let Outlook suck me back into Bill Gates' ->clutches. ->This is yucky. Sa-a-ave me from the Borg! :-) -> ->/kevin -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I tell you what you should see.