> What's that "because..." > There are dozens of options for retrieving and reading mail in Linux > .. not only kmail > Monolithic (all-in-one) and gui-solutions are sylpheed, xfmail, > pronto...IIRC I've tried tons of these options and when I use them I'd feel like I'd be using more of a workaround than just getting my e-mail. I love Kmail. It's so useful with a decent interface (KDE). If I didn't have Kmail, then I'd just have this feeling that my Linux system isn't complete and I'd be itching to reboot to Windows. I get that all the time when I'm using a program and it doesn't work quite as well as its Windows counter-part.
> You should get the exact error message from the message log; without it > there is no way ... For future reference, where's the message log? I removed Kmail with dpkg --purge and deleted all the related configuration files, reinstalled Kmail, reconfigured it, and not it works like a charm. Back to Linux it is. I'm home for two weeks so I really can't bother with these types of inconveniences. If I were on my regular computer, I'd definitly be trying hard to get Kmail working if it broke. - Bart