It was from an upgrade as Jonathan suggested. Not QUITE bug 272378 but evidently related. It was actually because ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc had a line in it saying:
folders[$e]=$HOME/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail Correcting that line solved the problem. Looks like another migration problem then. -- kmail fails if ~/.kde4 unavailable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327236 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdepim in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs