[Bug 259355] kmail terminates during startup with "Failed to fetch the resource collection."

[Timothy Murphy]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259355


Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> changed:

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--- Comment #21 from Timothy Murphy <gayleard eircom net>  2011-11-15 11:38:53 ---
I had this problem - getting the "Failed to fetch the resource collection."
error message whenever KMail2 was started under Fedora-16/KDE.

I seem to have solved the problem, very simply but also more or less randomly,
by creating an empty folder ~/Maildir .
Aftet this I was able to open KMail without getting the error message.
I went to Settings=>Configure KMail=>Accounts
double-clicked on Local Folders
and entered /home/tim/Maildir where asked
"Select the folder containing the maildir information:"

I have no idea why this worked,
and would like to suggest that the error message should be changed
to something intelligible by ordinary mortals.

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