KMail installation problems

[p.daniels]

Jamie Griffin wrote:
> I have opened Kontact as suggested and Kmail is there and working, so maybe there is no problem? Is Kmail not installed as a seperate program then? (sorry if that seems a dumb question) ... i just assumed it would be, as Evolution is on 'Ubuntu'
>   
Kmail is in fact a separate entity. As someone said, Kontact is more of 
a "wrapper" for Kmail, Korganizer, etc. If Kmail wouldn't start on  it's 
own, I'm not surprised that it wouldn't start in Kontact. Sorry I can't 
really be of more help.

-p.