[kdepim-users] Screwed up migration and KMail won't run!

Kevin Krammer kevin.krammer at gmx.at
Tue Nov 22 12:09:56 GMT 2011


On Tuesday, 2011-11-22, John Aldrich wrote:
> Quoting Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>:
> > Start from SystemSettings -> Personal Information and check what
> > resources are
> > set up and where each one points to.  If you have duplicate resources,
> > remove one of them (but do check carefully that they really are
> > duplicates).  Your mail should be still exactly where it was before -
> > akonadi does not touch the originals, merely indexing them in a
> > database.  Use Dolphin to make sure that you know where the messages
> > are, and point the resource to that folder.
> > 
> > Also, use Ctrl-Esc, type Kontact and/or KMail into the search bar (with
> > Kontact closed of course) and make sure that no running processes
> > exist before
> > you try again.  Test your fixes by running KMail as a separate
> > application before trying Kontact.
> 
> Negative. The exact error is "Kmail encountered a fatal error and will
> terminate now. The error was: Failed to fetch the resource collection."

I think that's caused by the Local Folders resource.
Remove that one, it should be automatically be recreated by the mail 
dispatcher.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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