[kdepim-users] Re: Kmail in KDEPIM 4.6 Beta3 won't access my inbox

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 17 January 2011, gene wrote:
> On 01/17/2011 03:00 PM, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Monday 17 January 2011, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> >> On Monday 17 January 2011, gene wrote:
> >>> Hi! I'm running KDEPIM 4.6 Beta3 in conjunction with KDE 4.6 RC2,
> >>> and I'm migrating an existing mail account from (I think) KDEPIM
> >>> 4.4.9. When I attempt open Kmail, either by itself or by opening
> >>> Kontact, I get the following error message:
> >>> 
> >>> Kmail encountered a fatal error and will terminate now.
> >>> The error was:
> >>> You do not have read/write permission to your inbox folder.
> >>> 
> >>> And in a separate dialog box:
> >>> 
> >>> Folder /home/gene/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/inbox does not seem
> >>> to be a valid email folder
> >>> 
> >>> My user has appriate read/write permissions for the directory in
> >>> question, and I can't imagine why my
> >>> ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/inbox would not be a valid mail
> >>> directory. Can anybody shed some light on this issue?
> >> 
> >> Does ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/inbox contain the directories
> >> cur, new and tmp? Do you have proper permissions for
> >> ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/.inbox.index.*
> > 
> > I had a look at the source code. If I understood the code correctly
> > then it checks whether
> > 
> >    ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/inbox/cur
> >    ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/inbox/new
> >    ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/inbox/tmp
> > 
> > all exist and are readable and writeable.
> > 
> > If all of this is true then I have no idea what's wrong.
> 
> gene at bruce:~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/inbox$ ls -l
> total 12
> drwxr-x--x 2 gene users 4096 Jan  9 20:39 cur/
> drwxr-x--x 2 gene users 4096 Dec 21 07:47 new/
> drwxr-x--x 2 gene users 4096 Jan  9 20:39 tmp/

Hmm. Looks good to me. The permissions are a bit unusual (I'd have 
expected something like drwx------ or drwxr-xr-x), but I don't think 
that this should cause problems because you have all permissions.

Unfortunately, that means that I'm out of ideas.


Regards,
Ingo
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