I tried to strace and had a log of 22Mb in about 2Min. for me it first showed nothing, but perhaps somebody knows a little more:
At the end its frozen with the following continuing for ever: 6019 write(4, ";\3\5\0003\4\340\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0z\0\20\0;\3\5\0\207\7"..., 448) = 448 6019 ioctl(4, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 6019 gettimeofday({1127982709, 395252}, NULL) = 0 6019 select(17, [3 4 5 6 8 14 16], [], [], {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) 6019 gettimeofday({1127982709, 395354}, NULL) = 0 6019 nanosleep({0, 100000}, NULL) = 0 6019 ioctl(4, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 6019 gettimeofday({1127982709, 396933}, NULL) = 0 6019 select(17, [3 4 5 6 8 14 16], [], [], {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) 6019 gettimeofday({1127982709, 397027}, NULL) = 0 6019 nanosleep({0, 100000}, NULL) = 0 6019 ioctl(4, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 6019 gettimeofday({1127982709, 398928}, NULL) = 0 6019 select(17, [3 4 5 6 8 14 16], [], [], {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) 6019 gettimeofday({1127982709, 399021}, NULL) = 0 6019 nanosleep({0, 100000}, NULL) = 0 6019 ioctl(4, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 In between there were things like this: 6019 access("/homelocal/oko/.kde/share/config/kresources_kabc_egroupwarerc", W_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such f ile or directory) 6019 access("/homelocal/oko/.kde/share/config/kresources_kabc_egroupwarerc", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such f ile or directory) 6019 access("/homelocal/oko/.kde/share/config", W_OK) = 0 6019 lstat64("/homelocal/oko/.kde/share/config/kresources_kabc_egroupwarerc", 0x84c2ef8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 6019 stat64("/homelocal/oko/.kde/share/config/kresources_kabc_egroupwarerc", 0x84c2ef8) = -1 ENOENT (No s uch file or directory) 6019 lstat64("/homelocal/oko/.kde/share/config/kresources_kabc_egroupwarerc", 0x84c2ef8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 6019 stat64("/homelocal/oko/.kde/share/config/kresources_kabc_egroupwarerc", 0x84c2ef8) = -1 ENOENT (No s uch file or directory) Then I thought it might come from any configured xmlrpc ressource. I had a connection to an egroupware server running in former times: keppler:~# dpkg -S egroupwarewizard kdepim-wizards: /usr/lib/kde3/libegroupwarewizard.so kdepim-wizards: /usr/bin/egroupwarewizard kdepim-wizards: /usr/share/man/man1/egroupwarewizard.1.gz kdepim-wizards: /usr/lib/kde3/libegroupwarewizard.la And finding: ~/.kde$ less share/config/kresources/contact/stdrc With lines with: XmlRpcUrl=http:/egroupware/xmlrpc.php I deleted the whole block. And kmail is now working. I hope this will be useful for somebody. I will leave the bug open because thats impossible to solve for any common user! Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]