Error in kmail

[Bambi]

Hi
I have just installed mandrake 8.0 with a minimum of components installed so it is pretty small (500 meg). kmail was installed duning installantion so i assume everything it requires is there but when trying to check my mail i get the following error :

Cpould not start process. Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'pop3'

Is there something else i need to insall to get it working?

Cheers

[Bambi]

I saw that other post about pine and mutt and decided to try the suggestion of sylpheed. I downloaded the source (0.6.4) did ./configure which went fine and then tried to make. It says it cant find libgtk.so, libgdk.so, libgmodule.so abd libglib.so. I did a search on the internet and have installed glib-1.2.8, glib-devel, gtk+1.2.8 and gtk+-devel.

I thought ./configure would have picked up something like this and wouldn't let you go any furether until the dependencies were met. What other packages do i need to install to provide those missing libraries?

[bdg1983]

Make sure the paths to those libraries are in /etc/ld.so.conf, add if necessary and run 'ldconfig' either way.

[Bambi]

Thanks for the advice. Edited ld.so.conf and that fixed the compiling. I also installed kdebase and that fixed the kmail prob.

[bdg1983]

Glad to help.