Re: kmail no longer finds account info
This issue seems to affect korganizer, kaddressbook, kmail and possibly other
applications during a system crash.. We have seen everything from the file
name with hundreds of .backup extensions.. ie..
.backup.backup.backup.. ...
Also, what happens is that it blindly overwrites existing personal config
files with a new blank one, (It should check that if it is missing, restore
backup, but it doens't) and then when you open/exit the program and find the
missing info, by that time it overwrites the legitimate backup with a backup
of the empty file, so you have lost everything. I am sure that many bug
reports must have been filed on this issue, so check there first, but you
probably have to restore the config files from backup, or recreate the
information that they contained.
On January 19, 2005 10:14 am, Michael Bona wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Debian/Woody with the semi-official KDE3 packages. KDE version
> is 3.2.0, KMail is version 1.6.
>
> Since this Friday, KMail opens and shows all mail previously received but
> cannot fetch or send mail since it seems to have lost all the account
> infos.
>
> I looked in .kde/share/apps/kmail and the files with the account info seem
> to be there but kmail either does not find them or does not read them or
> they are corrupt. Kmail shows no error message when starting up.
>
> When I try to download mail, no account names are shown, pressing the
> button only shows an empty drop-down.
>
> Any help appreciated
> Michael
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