Bug#403004: kmail: Kmail does not start after sarge->etch upgrade

[Alexander Litvinov <lan@academsoft.ru>]

Sorry for late reply, I have debian machine at home and I have not chance to 
rich it yet.

> > <jdmetz> I'm not sure it is grave, though, as I think it only applies to
> > people using IMAP with a courier-imap server <jdmetz> that isn't "most
> > people"

I am using kmail to handle local mail from misc daemons and use cyrus imap 
account to read work emails.

> >
> > Alexander:
> > If you rename your file $HOME/.kde/share/config/kmailrc as kmailrc.old,
> > you will be able to start kmail again, but all your account info will be
> > lost. Basically, you will have to configure all your accounts in kmail
> > again :(

This is not too hard, thanks for the solution.

> First, I've been assuming that you are accessing a courier-imap server for
> at least one account.  Is that true?  (Are all your folders under the
> inbox, or did you have to set INBOX. as the prefix to folders in sarge's
> kmail?).

All my folders are under INBOX. (This is the default behavior for cyrus 
without shared folders)

> If not, then this is a different problem.  If you are accessing a
> courier-imap server, rather than reconfiguring all your accounts, I believe
> that renaming or deleting $HOME/.kde/share/apps/kmail/imap/* should allow
> kmail to start up.  Deleting this is fine, as it is just kmail's cache of
> all the e-mail headers.  Since kmail in KDE 3.5 handles namespace/prefix
> differently, if will have to redownload all the headers anyway.  That was
> enough to let me start kmail when I upgraded to KDE 3.5.

I will try today evening (~12 hours after this mail sent).