Re: [SLUG] kmail won't start

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon Dec 26 2005 - 12:57:13 EST


On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, steve szmidt wrote:

> > > >On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Bob Stia wrote:
> > > >>Getting this message after kmail fails to start:
> > > >>
> > > >>Kmail could not create folder "HOME/Mail"
>
> Was that a verbatim message? Who owns the /home directory?
>
> I've had that in the past when I copied my home dir to a new system. Does the
> user id match you? I.e. when you type ls -l /home/bob do you see bob or a
> (user id) number like 500. Though I think that last Q has already been
> answered.
>
> Definitely a rights or disk space problem.

If there were a _file_ ~/Mail that message might also result.

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asks the barman. "Yeah, I have a parity error," replies the ASCII character.
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