Thanks for the reply. Can advise that with those threats of discord in my domestic life I've been able to avert them (well for the moment) I thought I'd just do it got nothing to loose and go and back up the /.kde/share/kmail/mail data to another location. Started kmail and it been up and running for at least 20 minutes. connected to the server got all messages stored and another lot (which had you're reply to my post).
I will look into those locations to see if I can find out why the thing crashed and post this into my bug report as I think kmail broke something within the 9.10 kmail upgrade session _or_ I broke something when I deleted an email but why I wouldn't know. regarding when it crashed before or after connection (I would like to venture to say before connection) to the server. all I can say is kmail would load, Main screen would appear (if it was the 1st time) I have it set to attempt to connect upon startup then it would crash. Once (not remember if it was before upgrade to lucid or not) but I actually got 3 emails down loaded from the server before it died but that was only once. cheers, Dave. On Sat, 29 May 2010 11:40:42 you wrote: > 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
