> Following installation and BEFORE opening Kmail for the first time, I > copied > the above mail into the newly created /home directory. On opening Kmail > all my mail and filter folders from the backup were shown but when I > attempted to open any particular mail the subject immediately changed to > 'No Subject' and the name of the sender and the date each changed to > 'unknown' and the mail > opened empty. Obviously, I have done something wrong, which is not > unusual, so can some person with more knowledge than me please tell me how > to rectify the problem. I think this behaviour is caused by broken/incorrect/obsolete index files. Try deleting *index* from the mail directory, and try again. Of course, make sure you take a backup in case something gets deleted that you don't want to delete. Regards, Philip -- KDE Documentation Team: http://i18n.kde.org/doc KDE Documentation Online: http://docs.kde.org ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.