Several problems with KMail in KDE 4.2

[Eli Wapniarski]

On Wednesday 11 February 2009 19:42:02 Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> People,
>
> Since I've upgrade do KDE 4.2 from updates-testing, KMail is presenting
> several issues which are making it real hard for me to use it.
> The message list panel doesn't remember which columns is should show nor
> their order. Every time I close Kontact and reopen it, all 17 available
> columns are displayed in some default order. It's no good to hide the
> ones I do not want and reorder the ones I want, because the next time I
> close and reopen Kontact all of them are shown in their default order
> again.
> Today I tried to open KMail stand alone (without Kontact) to see if it
> would behave differently. In stand alone mode it remember which columns
> I had selected when it is opened, but not their order nor their width.
> And now I can't open KMail embedded in Kontact anymore. When I open
> Kontact, it opens KMail in a separate Window. If I close it and select
> another application in Kontact and then get back to mail, it opens KMail
> in a separate window again.
> Sometimes, when I try to resize the Subject Column, it will just be
> pushed to the left or to the right with the same width, resizing the
> column right before it instead.
> The font setup to the message list panel have no effect at all. The
> configuration screen is there, but the font is not changed, nor its
> size, color or other attributes.
> When a thread is deleted with CTRL+DEL, some random message that was
> after it is selected, instead of the one right after the deleted thread.
> There are also other minor problems, but I've reported the bugs and can
> live with them until they're fixed. The ones described above, however,
> are disturbing me very much.
> Is there any workaround for any of them while they're not fixed? Is
> there some change I can make in configuration files, or something?
>
Try shutting down kontact / kmail

then rename 

~/.kde/share/apps/kmail

See if that helps.

Eli

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