Bug#289904: kmail: unable to write a new message

[Matías Costa <mcc3@alu.um.es>]

El Martes, 11 de Enero de 2005 19:31, Markus escribió:
> Package: kmail
> Version: 4:3.3.1-3
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Well, I used kmail for a long time, but today (the first time after the
> 3.3 update) I tried to send a mail. But when I try to write a mail (new
> mail, answer a mail, forward,...) kmail just freezes. On stderr it
> writes only this line for approx. 34 times, but when I try to write a
> mail, nothing is printed:
> kmail: WARNING: QuotedPrintableDecoder: \x0b illegal character in input
> stream! Ignoring.
> After that, nothing happens, no unusual activities... till now I found
> no way to write a mail in kmail...
>
> kmail 1.7.1 from kde 3.3.1

I am not expert, but I believe it's a dcop / ice issue. Please, logout and 
shutdown X (/etc/init.d/kdm stop, or gdm,xdm). Then remove :

rm ~/.DCOP* 
rm ~/.ICE*
rm -R /tmp/*

This last will remove all witch belongs to your user.

Try again. If it's broken, try with a new user. If again is broken... tell it