[Users] Kubuntu upgrade caused disaster!

[John Walker]

 Paul,
Maybe I didn't make myself clear. When I said I wasn't able to send anything using Claws Mail my point is that I can't get to actually sending or receiving because all my passwords have disappeared. I can certainly send and receive using the Yahoo web page, but that's little use to me except in emergency situations like the present, especially since my Yahoo account is not y only one.
Claws Mail shows all my accounts but has blanked out my passwords. Various other  preferences have returned to the Claws Mail defaults (eg it checks for mail every five minutes instead of the 30 minutes I's set and, as I mentioned, the font my emails are displayed in has changed) and my plugins have all disappeared. As far as the latter are concerned, surely they are specified by account and therefore should be in a file in ~/.claws-mail? I can see clawsrc, accountrc, etc. What I'd like to try is to restore the appropriate one(s) from before the problem.
I've tried restoring passwordstorerc from August, by the way, but that hasn't changed the situation. What other files should I look at?
And thanks for your patience,
John   On Tuesday, 11 February 2025 at 23:32:40 GMT, Paul <paul at claws-mail.org> wrote:  
 
 On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:21:03 +0000 (UTC)
John Walker via Users <users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote: 

> Incidentally, I now suspect that the distro upgrade may not have been the
> cause. The problem started after I upgraded my machine, but the file
> corruption - or whatever this is - may have occurred before then if Claws
> Mail was using the uncorrupted version of the file. Restarting  Claws mail
> would have made it use the corrupted version. 

> Which is the file that
> contains the various preferences?

in ~/.claws-mail/ you'll see clawsrc and accountrc, etc. See `man claws-mail`
for a description of other files in that directory.

> And where should the plugins reside?

It looks like on ubuntu they should be found in
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/claws-mail/plugins/

You said originally that "I don't seem to be able to send anything using
Claws-Mail" but the debug output doesn't show any network activity, sending
or receiving attempts.

with regards

Paul

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