Re: kmail can't be reconfigured on either F10 nor on mdv2010

On Monday 28 December 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
>On Saturday 26 December 2009 17:58:48 Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 26 December 2009, James Kerr wrote:
>> >On Saturday 26 December 2009 Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> Greetings all;
>> >>
>> >> Since the most recent updates by both fedora for F10, which is
>> >>  EOL'd now, nor for mdv 2010-x86-64, I cannot edit the
>> >>  kmail->config kmail->accounts->send screens, nothing I do on
>> >>  either machine in 3 different account entries will un-ghost the
>> >>  apply button.
>> >>
>> >> Its working on F10, but I'm trying to move to a 64 bit mandriva
>> >>  2010 install.
>> >
>> >Your second paragraph seems to conflict with the subject. Assuming
>> >that the second paragraph is correct, then did you copy your kmail
>> >config files from F10 to Mandriva? If so, are you using the same
>> >UID/GID on both systems? IIRC, they use different defaults. You may
>> >need to change the ownership of your kmail config files.
>> >
>> >Jim
>>
>> I mounted this F10 installs /home to a mint 8 install as its own /home,
>> and chown -R gene:gene the whole gene tree there, gained root and monted
>> /root to the mint 8 /mnt tree and using mc, copied the root version of
>> kmailrc over the top of the mint 8 version in /home/gene and chown
>> gene:gene kmailrc. Which didn't work rather spectacularly.  So I rebooted
>> to F10 and did as root 'chown -R gene:gene /home/gene' which seemed to
>> restore the /home stuff here.
>>
>> I'm uid/gid=0 here, 500:500 on the mdv install.  Trying to break myself
>> of running as root. :-)  Only been doing it since RH5.1...
>>
>> What I did on the mdv install was to mount this drive, then used mc to
>> copy the  /root... kmailrc to the /home/gene/.kde tree and chown 
>> gene:gene kmailrc.  While kmail was not running.
>>
>> That got all my folders back when kmail was restarted, and the mail
>> filters that sort it all to the various folders also works, but I cannot
>> modify any config data, apparently on either install now.  Wierd.
>>
>> I suppose mc could have munged something in the perms numbers preventing
>>  gene from updating his own file?  Haven't checked yet, been too darned
>>  real around here this morning so far.  What should an ls -l show for
>>  kmailrc when its owned by a common user?
>>
>> Here on F10, its owned by root of course:
>> -rw------- 1 root root 141234 2009-12-26 12:51 kmailrc
>>
>> And that looks pretty restrictive for anybody else.  But I should be able
>>  to update it.
>>
>> Thanks James.
>
>Gener - check out
> http://userbase.kde.org/KMail/FAQs_Hints_and_Tips#Migration
>
>Make sure you have all the files mentioned there, copied across and perms
>corrected.
>
>Anne
>
Thanks Ann, dumped to hardcopy.  I didn't know kmail had moved its mail 
corpus though.

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