[kde-linux] Problem restoring KMail after crash

[Paul Brannon]

Hi - 

I had a drive failure, and after getting reloading Mandriva 2005 LE tried to 
restore my mail.  Problem.  When the splash screen got to 85%, I got the 
message:

> "KMail could not create folder '$Home/.Mail
>  please make sure that you can view and modify the
>  content of the folder '/home/paul'

My environment variable $HOME was set right, and I had apprioriate privileges 
to the folder.

Ann Wilson suggested finding the file

>~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc
>
>where there is a lline
>
>folders=$HOME/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail
>
>I don't think it would do any harm to try changing $HOME there 
>to /home/paul, and you can always change it back if it doesn't work.  If 
>it does work we should report it back to the list, for the sake of the 
>archives.

It worked like a charm.