Kmail not working in 4.8

[Thomas Tanghus Olsen]

On Thursday 26 January 2012 16:19 O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 26/01/12 15:58, Mark Greenwood wrote:
> > On 26 Jan 2012, at 08:05, George Labuschagne wrote:
> >> Hi all
> >> 
> >> I updated to 4.8 via the backports PPA. I started with a fresh clean home
> >> directory.
> >> 
> >> Kmail seems broken. I created two imap accounts. One a gmail one. When I
> >> go to the configuration screen and select the account and then click
> >> 'Modify' nothing happens at all.
> >> 
> >> Also I cannot send any mails anymore via smtp on my gmail account or
> >> other account.
> >> 
> >> When I now open kmail, it only says 'Loading.../Inbox' in the window
> >> title bar but no new email ever arrives.
> >> 
> >> What should I do?
> 
> from kde-pim users list:
> clean .kde tmps like this :
> rm -rf /var/tmp/kdecache-$USER /tmp/ksocket-$USER /tmp/kde-$USER
> sometimes do magic
> 
> have not tried myself, am not using IMAP and still on 4.7.4

I did just that and had no problems using my existing IMAP accounts after 
upgrade.

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Thomas Tanghus Olsen