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Originally Posted by dbc254
Force of habit really. Have always used Kmail without issue until now... It's been many years without incident.
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Yup, I can appreciate that.
However all the effort is now going into Kontact 5 and that is such an integral KDE component that you really want to be running it in a Plasma 5 environment. You don't really want to be going down the route of finding a PPA version of Plasma 5 to install on Mint 17.3.
I have no idea whether Plasma 5 is slated for Mint 18 KDE, which should be available around July/August, but it may solve your problems if it is (and I imagine it probably will be, since KDE 4 development has been frozen and distributions are starting to drop support for it).
In the meantime, I'm not sure whether Kmail 4 will be updated by anybody to resolve the bug or not, but I doubt it. So, if you can hang around until then and install Mint 18, you *could* be fine.
Otherwise I'd think about moving to another client.