Bug#289189: kmail: could not access to imap servers

[Josh Metzler <joshdeb@metzlers.org>]

On Friday 07 January 2005 01:34 pm, César Enrique García Dabó wrote:
> Package: kmail
> Version: 4:3.3.1-3
> Severity: important
>
>  I have just upgraded my sarge system with the new KDE packages (kmail
> 1.7.1 using KDE 3.3.1) and I found that I cannot acess to my imaps
> accounts. I have tried with imap (without SSL) but it doesn work either.
>  I get the following message in the console:
>
> kmail: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave:
> klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'newimaps'.
>
>  When I use plain imap it says the same but newimap.
>  I have tried three servers but it is the same.
>  I have tried configuring kmail and accounts from scratch, but it is the
> same.
>
>  Bye.
>

Kmail uses a new method for accessing imap accounts now, and it is in a new 
package that kmail recommends, kdepim-kio-plugins.  Installing this package 
will solve your problem.

Josh