Shortcut key ‘Ctrl-N’ doubly defined

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday 21 August 2017 09:36:25 Erik Quaeghebeur wrote:

> Gentoo finally having stabilized the KDE 5 version of Kontact, I'm trying
> out kmail 5.5.3. One issue that already came up is the following. When I
> press ‘Ctrl-N’ to compose a new mail, I get the message that this
> shortcut is doubly defined, so it is ambiguous and cannot be used. When
> looking at the shortcuts defined in kmail, only the single definition,
> for new mail composition, is defined. I suppose there is another place I
> should check as well, but where?

I've been wrestling with some obscure problem in my system over the last 
several days, and I finished up reinstalling from a stage 3, complete with 
using parted to create a new disk partition structure. I also created a new 
user for myself, planning to import my KMail archive.

But! In the meantime I found as you said, that in Gentoo KMail is now at 
5.5.3, so I thought everything in the garden would be rosy. Nope. The menu 
option to import messages was greyed out, so bye-bye all my e-mail history.

Actually, I went back and re-reinstalled from an older portage tree, so as 
to get KMail 4.14.10 back and import all my e-mails. I'm not ready to 
upgrade if I can't rely on my mail archives.

Is this really the state of KMail at the moment: no import facility? Or 
perhaps I went adrift in building the system.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.