[CS-FSLUG] KMail troubleshooting

[Robert W.]

On 09/07/2005 04:46:54 PM, bouquet at ruthes-secretroses.com wrote:
>  I do have one problem though. My account settings for both Sending    
> and Recieving  mail won't hold. The Sending details disappear as soon  
> as I try to  send any  email, and the Receiving details vanish when I  
> close KMail. So I've  been  filling those blanks out over and over -  
> no go!   Been checking online, Googling, and reading all the manuals,  
> but  nothing exactly  answers this. I do believe though (maybe just  
> intuitively), that it  started when  I was trying to import my emails  
> from my Mandrake/KMail backup. The  import  didn't work, so I  
> followed the advice in the KMail handbook, which  talked of  adding a  
> line to the file at .kde/share/config/kmailrc (after saving  a   
> backup  copy). That didn't work, so I put it back. Perhaps wrongly?  
> Now it  has  a golden  padlock on it!

Check the permissions and ownership of .kde/share/config/kmailrc. It  
sounds like KMail can not write to the file.

-- 
Robert W.
robertwo at insightbb.com

Enter through the narrow gate... But small is the gate and narrow the
road that leads to life, and only a few find it. -- Matthew 7:13a,14