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    [RESOLVED] Can not start Kontact without Kmail in Oneiric

    Since I installed Oneiric yesterday, I can not start Kontact. I do NOT want to use or configure Kmail.

    How to avoid Kmail? (I use Thunderbird.)
    'I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.' Mark Twain

    #2
    Re: Can not start Kontact without Kmail in Oneiric

    You'll have to tell Kontact after it has launched that you don't want to run Kmail -- Settings > Configure Kontact... and uncheck Mail
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      #3
      Re: Can not start Kontact without Kmail in Oneiric

      Originally posted by Snowhog
      You'll have to tell Kontact after it has launched that you don't want to run Kmail -- Settings > Configure Kontact... and uncheck Mail
      I'd love to, but the first thing it displays is the warning

      "KMail encountered a fatal error and will terminate now.
      The error was:
      Failed to fetch the resource collection."

      at the SAME TIME as the demand to "Provide personal data" for Kmail (which I do not want to give) and when I click on "OK", Kontact disappears. I provided the mail data anyway, then restarted it and got the same message. What the dickens is a "resource collection"? And what does it want with Wallet, another application I do not see any need for.?
      'I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.' Mark Twain

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        #4
        Re: Can not start Kontact without Kmail in Oneiric

        check to see if you have the directory ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail2/mail

        the prob most have had is that the directory "mail" dosent exist......so make it
        Code:
        mkdir ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail2/mail
        and then relaunch Kontact and disable mail as @Snowhog suggested

        VINNY
        i7 4core HT 8MB L3 2.9GHz
        16GB RAM
        Nvidia GTX 860M 4GB RAM 1152 cuda cores

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          #5
          Re: Can not start Kontact without Kmail in Oneiric

          Thanks, Vinny, but sorry: same result.

          Other ideas?
          'I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.' Mark Twain

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            #6
            Re: Can not start Kontact without Kmail in Oneiric

            Originally posted by joneall
            Thanks, Vinny, but sorry: same result.

            Other ideas?
            Aaa yes sorry you must also point the Akonaditray app to the folder you just made ........I am doing to much at once today.

            thare is a tread about this hear somewhere..... (2 busy to find it right now but it's only a day or 2 old so it shouldn't be 2 hard to find.)

            VINNY
            i7 4core HT 8MB L3 2.9GHz
            16GB RAM
            Nvidia GTX 860M 4GB RAM 1152 cuda cores

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              #7
              Re: Can not start Kontact without Kmail in Oneiric

              Ok, I will look at that tomorrow. I do wish, tho, that a calendar/address-book application could be a little simpler.
              'I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.' Mark Twain

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                #8
                Re: Can not start Kontact without Kmail in Oneiric

                hears the bug report and some fixes.... the fix from ......post#10 was the ticket for me .

                https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259355

                VINNY
                i7 4core HT 8MB L3 2.9GHz
                16GB RAM
                Nvidia GTX 860M 4GB RAM 1152 cuda cores

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                  #9
                  Re: Can not start Kontact without Kmail in Oneiric

                  Thanks a lot, Vinny. No. 10 did it for me too.

                  Now I have another pb. I cannot import my ldif or ical data. But I will make another thread for that.

                  Thanks again.
                  'I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.' Mark Twain

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