I can't use KMail in kde4

Anders Lund anders at alweb.dk
Sat Oct 13 16:31:37 BST 2007


On Saturday 13 October 2007, Allen Winter wrote:
> On Saturday 13 October 2007 2:33:21 am Anders Lund wrote:
> > ... because it claims that it can't create ~/Mail and that i should see
> > to that i have write and modify permissions to ~. I obviously have, and
> > ~/Mail exists and contains my mail.
> >
> > I'd call that a showstopper...
>
> Are you using a KDE3 .kde/share/config/kmailrc?
> Does this file contain a line "folders=$HOME/Mail"

I wasn't using a kde3 KDEHOME, but the file in fact contained that line.

> And that won't work because of the KConfig and $HOME problem,
> which Thomas Braxton and ossi have promised to fix very soon.
>
> As a workaround you could replace $HOME with your real home dir.
>
> But SMTP doesn't work anyway.  IMAP doesn't either.. I don't think.

so no usable kmail kde4 for now?


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