I can't use KMail in kde4

[Allen Winter]

On Saturday 13 October 2007 11:31:37 am Anders Lund wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 

Correct.