Kmail doesn't start up

[Robert Guthrie <rguthrie@pobox.com>]

When I lauch Kmail (on my home machine) from either the menus or the command 
line, I get nothing.  No errors, and only the little spinning disk icon when 
launched from the menu.  I've looked through the docs that I could find on 
kmail, and only "kmail --help" produces anything that approaches a listing of 
options for debugging.

Any ideas what would cause kmail to just fork to the background and then 
quit?  What about raising the debug level?

I'm certain that this is my fault, as I've installed kde & kmail on both my 
work machine and my home machine, and only my home installation exhibits this 
problem.
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