. . . in the standard linux tradition, i did some stuff and then got 
the trinity kmail. but this is what the commandline also gave me:

dep@deportable:~$ kmail
TQSettings::sync: failed to open '/etc/tqt3/tqt_plugins_3.5rc.tmp' for 
writing
TQSettings::sync: failed to open '/etc/tqt3/tqt_plugins_3.5rc.tmp' for 
writing
TQSettings::sync: failed to open '/etc/tqt3/tqt_plugins_3.5rc.tmp' for 
writing
[TDE NM Backend ERROR] 
[/build/buildd/tdelibs-trinity-14.0.0-r1231/tdecore/tdehw/networkbackends/network-manager/network-manager.cpp:1224] 
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name 
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
[TDE NM Backend ERROR] 
[/build/buildd/tdelibs-trinity-14.0.0-r1231/tdecore/tdehw/networkbackends/network-manager/network-manager.cpp:1224] 
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name 
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
[TDE NM Backend ERROR] 
[/build/buildd/tdelibs-trinity-14.0.0-r1231/tdecore/tdehw/networkbackends/network-manager/network-manager.cpp:1803] 
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name 
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
dep@deportable:~$ WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 1) suspended.
WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 3) suspended.
WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 2) suspended.
WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 4) suspended.
kmail: WARNING: FolderStorage::getMsg was asked for an invalid index. 
idx =1 count()=1

maybe there's nothing here to worry about. but it looks a little 
sketchy.
-- 
dep

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