I had the problem that on opening KMail I got the error message "Failed to fetch the resource collection." I seem to have solved the problem, more or less randomly, by creating a directory /tim/home/Maildir . This allowed me to start KMail, and I went to Accounts, double-clicked on Local Folders and entered /home/tim/Maildir where asked "Select the folder containing the maildir information:" -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org