Bug#118994: kmail unable to fetch mail: "klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_pop3'"

["s. champ" <junctionxyz@mediaone.net>]

Package: kmail
Version: 4:2.1.1-7
Severity: important

after upgrading kdelibs3 and some other packages, today, i started
getting the following message from kmail, when trying to fetch mail
from a remote POP server: 

  Could not start process
  Unable to create io-clave:
  klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_pop3'


so, the pop3 mail-fetching won't work.



-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux tokamak.dtdns.net 2.4.9k6-xyzzy #1 Mon Sep 17 23:47:53 PDT 2001 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages kmail depends on:
ii  kdebase-libs           4:2.1.1.0-10      KDE libraries amd modules for kdeb
ii  kdelibs3               4:2.2.1-14        KDE core libraries (runtime files)
ii  libc6                  2.2.4-5           GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libjpeg62              6b-1.3            The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libmimelib1            2.1.0-1           mime libraries needed for some KDE
ii  libpng2                1.0.12-2          PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt2                 2:2.3.1-14        Qt GUI Library (runtime version).
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.011006 The GNU stdc++ library
ii  xlibs                  4.1.0-9           X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.1.3-16        compression library - runtime