On Sat 29 May 2010 11:06:47 NZST +1200, dave wrote:
> OS starts and I've signed in
> load kmail
> once loaded it tries to connect to the server.
> at some point it crashes!
> sig 6 pid <whatever it was>
Signal 6 is "abort", something tells kmail to abort. Could also be a
network issue.
And is the crash after/while contacting the mail server, or before? The
difference is quite important.
kmail stores files in these places (warning KDE 3, KDE 4 may be
different):
~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/
~/.kde/share/config/kmail.eventsrc
~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc
~/.kde/share/config/kmailsnippetrc
Plus the default mail store is somewhere, but I can't tell you where
because I always put it where I want it.
You could rename all of those (search for anything containing kmail in
its name, under ~/.kde/, or whereever your distro puts the user kde
files).
MAKE DAMN SURE kmail is not running at the time!
Then set up the mail account again in kmail.
TO revert, make sure kmail is not running, delete the new stuff and
rename the old one back.
Your contacts etc will be in one of those files.
Your old email will be someplace too, you can easily feed that into
thunderbird, but you'll need to convert it to mbox format first if it
isn't (the default for kmail is not mbox).
You can concatenate all the email files into one file, EXCEPT the
leading "From " line (that's not the From: line!) is probably missing.
The best way to reconstruct that is to run every mail file through
formail -b before concatenating them into a single mbox file.
Note this may scramble your received times, try
formail -b -a Date:
to fix that.
And -a Date: may scramble your "From " dates, try running the output of
that through formail -b again, before concatenation.
Use mutt -f to check your mbox file.
Volker
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