I originally sent this email to the debian-users list, but someone there said that I ought to move the thread here.
My current set-up: Debian Lenny KDE 3.5.10 KMail 1.9.9 KMail has been broken since the upgrade to 3.5.10 from 3.5.9. Everything works, so far as I can tell, except POP3, but that is a rather big except. :-( I can manage with my email on Gmail protem, but it is becoming a real problem. I have been waiting patiently for an upgrade to fix this, but in spite of two occasions when a large number of KDE updates were applied, the situation has if anything deteriorated. When Lenny updated OOo to 2.4.1 OOo was broken for about a fortnight. So should I just sit tight? I have attempted to purge and install KMail with the following result (0), but have so far refused the offer of so extreme a solution as that proposed by aptitude. Particularly as, if the break is at present in Lenny rather than localised here, I would simply get back where I am until the problem is fixed. What does the list advise that I should do? I could obviously switch to a different email client, I would rather revert to Etch than do without KMail. TIA Lisi (0) localhost:/home/user# aptitude purge KMail && aptitude install kmail Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages are BROKEN: kdepim kmailcvt The following packages will be REMOVED: kmail{p} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 8270kB will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: kdepim: Depends: kmail (>= 4:3.5.9-5) but it is not installable kmailcvt: Depends: kmail (>= 4:3.5.9-5) but it is not installable The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: kde kdepim kmailcvt Leave the following dependencies unresolved: kontact recommends kmail Score is -663 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies. Abort. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done localhost:/home/user# -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org