Hi Roger.
You are absolutely right that shipping that there's no excuse outdated 
documentation. Documentation that old better gets deleted altogether from KDE 
if UserBase is the better resource.[*]

Regarding your specific problem with KMail, that actually isn't KDE's fault. 
openSUSE and a few other distros save configuration files for KDE 3 and KDE 4 
in different places to make parallel installation possible. Usually upon first 
start of KDE 4 some kind of setting migration tool should've been launched. 
That was obviously not the case for you -- maybe the old 11.0 didn't such a 
tool, yet.
To get rid of KDE 4, open YaST's Software Repositories component and remove 
the KDE 4 repo(s). Then confirm your changes. Then start Konsole and type:
sudo zypper dup
and confirm that with your password. All KDE 4 packages should then be 
replaced with their old KDE 3 equivalents. Reboot your PC
(sudo /sbin/reboot) and make sure that the Session Type is not "KDE 4".

While I totally understand your frustration with the bad migration, your 
comment "Load KDE4 if you want to play with your computer. If you want to use 
your computer for serious work load KDE3." is very in appropriate. "Serious 
work" does not depend on the documentation alone. The actual software of KDE 
evolved a lot from 3.5 up to 4.3 and the functionality was greatly improved.
KMail was one of the first applications that I upgraded to the KDE 4 version 
-- while I was still using KDE 3.5 as desktop environment. My observation was 
that it runs much more stable than the old one.

Regarding my first comment (marked with [*]), right after I read you e-mail, I 
made a request to actually point users to UserBase instead of shoveling 
outdated documentation down the users' throat: 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202985
Anybody who agrees please vote for that bug. You have up to 20 votes.

Markus
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