-----Original Message----- From: Patrick [mailto:penguin0601@earthlink.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 3:36 PM
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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