[TriLUG] Broken kmail in Debian sarge?

[Tom Bryan]

I know that there are some Debian users on the list.  

I just installed Debian (sarge) for the first time last weekend.  Since then, 
I have stumbled across a couple of programs that I had forgotten to install 
(kuickshow, xemacs, etc.)  I used dselect to install them.  No problems.

This morning, I realized that I was missing xpdf.  dselect, choose xpdf, tell 
it to install packages required by (and recommended by) xpdf.  Install.  

Now, I was in a meeting at the time, so I was only half paying attention to 
dselect.  I'm pretty sure that all I did was to select xpdf and resolve 
through its dependecies.  I remember seeing that one library package was 
being uninstalled because it is now deprecated and another one replaced it.  
When the install step ran, I saw that dselect was installing a bunch of KDE 
apps.  I was running KDE at the time, but I'm not sure whether that could 
cause the problem I'm seeing.

I have rebooted the machine since then.  I can boot up and log into KDE fine.  
I use a Konsole and browse slashdot with Konqueror.  I can open KMail, but 
when I attempt to access IMAP over SLL, I get an error dialog that says 
"Could not start process for newimap".  This worked just before I installed 
xpdf.  

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade 
says that I have 0 packages to install.

Any ideas for troubleshooting?  Does apt-get or dselect write logs somewhere 
about exactly which packages it is installing?  I'd like to track down that 
deleted library package and figure out what might be broken.  

Thank,
---Tom