Bug#269038: kmail: "could not start process for newimap"

[Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.berkeley.edu>]

Adeodato Simó <asp16@alu.ua.es> writes:

> * Carlos Galisteo [Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:29:09 +0200]:
>> Package: kmail
>> Version: 4:3.3.0-2
>> Severity: important
>
>> Kmail starts ok, but when it tries to check the IMAP server, it shows an
>> error msg with text "could not start process for newimap".
>
>   please install the recommended kdepim-kio-plugins package.
>
>   p.s.: Daniel, can you provide a rationale for kde{pim,base}-kio-plugins
>   being only recommended and not depended on?

I think I was being generous by making them recommended since it
actually appears to fit the definition of Suggests best: "installing
this one [kmail] without them [kde*-kio-plugins] is perfectly
reasonable" in the common case of getting mail from a local mbox file.
And I certainly don't want it to be absolutely impossible to install
kmail without kde{pim,base}-kio-plugins also being installed.

Maybe I could add a blurb to the kmail description, though, that
explains "To get mail from an IMAP server using kmail, you need to
install kdepim-kio-plugins, and to get mail from a POP server, you
need to install kdebase-kio-plugins".
-- 
Daniel Schepler              "Please don't disillusion me.  I
schepler@math.berkeley.edu    haven't had breakfast yet."
                                 -- Orson Scott Card