[TriLUG] Kmail problem

Maria C Winslow maria.winslow at windows-linux.com
Tue Nov 5 13:34:11 EST 2002


Well, that's the wierd thing. It behaves just as you describe, and the 
file associations are correct. I am running KDE on RH 8. But I have 
evolution problems now, too! I seem to have accidentally blown away the 
configuration database (whoops). It won't launch, but just complains 
about the config database. Huh?

Jon Carnes wrote:
> What do you see on the Status bar (at the bottom of the Kmail window)? 
> When your cursor is over the web link it should show the web address. 
> When you click on the web link in the mail, the status bar should
> indicate: Opening URL...
> 
> If all that is happening, then the problem may be with KDE (are you
> using KDE or gnome?).  Check your file associations.  In Mandrake you
> would run the Center and then click on:
>   FileBrowsing / File Associations / text / html
> 
> If that doesn't work, then this might be a good time to check out
> Evolution.  I was a devoted fan of Kmail till I gave a Evolution a
> shot!  
> 
> Good luck - Jon
> 
> ===
> On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 12:27, Maria C Winslow wrote:
> 
>>Help!
>>I have a funny problem with KMail that I can't resolve. It won't open 
>>links embedded in email (either in Konqueror or Mozilla - the browser 
>>doesn't seem to matter). First, it stalled for a while, then launched 
>>the browser. But it was trying to open a file in a temp directory of the 
>>  kfmexec app (.kde/share/apps/kfmexec/tmp). There is not much 
>>documentation that I could find on kfmexec, but it appears to be the app 
>>responsible for launching other apps. Sounds like a permission problem, 
>>but it wasn't. And now it just stalls for a while and gives up without 
>>reporting an error. Ideas? It's driving me crazy because I really prefer 
>>Kmail.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>Maria




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