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This irritating piece of advertising deters me from using Kmail. I managed to get rid of it in my previous distro version but I cannot find the secret this time.

Whenever I launch Kmail, a "welcome to mandriva" message appears in the inbox. It's even more annoying than the Kmail banners which appear at other points.

The message is regenerated somehow. Deleting the source document, assuming I could find one, would probably result in an error message.

Is there some alteration I can make to Kmail documents to stop this message appearing?

Thanks, bram85. Sorry to have been so long getting back. Without notification, I'm easily distracted.

I know Kde has not put the spam there. It's from Mandriva, after all. It shows how out of touch the people running Mandriva are if they think this kind of nonsense is in the least persuasive or even welcome.

The "banners" are quite innocuous but a lesser example of the same thing.

Messing with any part of Kde, I've found, is not a good idea. We seem to be entirely in our distro's hands on that score.

I guess I'll keep using Thunderbird.

For the benefit of anyone else who may be looking for an answer, I found it on the mandriva users' forum. I thought I had already tried it and got an error message but that was just my imagination.

I renamed the folder /usr/share/mdk/mail to mail.bad

I suspect now that it's just more carelessness on Mandriva's part rather than an intention to badger their users.

I think KDE should have something to say to Mandriva about the misuse of Kde software.