Upstream KDE has accepted the pacth to fix a problem I was having with KMail. I would be nice to get this into the KDE 3.5 ebuilds so I can ditch my custom overlay for the fix. The patch is in the referenced KDE bug report.
Created attachment 97470 [details, diff] Patch to kde-base/kmail to fix KDE bug 117882 This is the patch file I use in my overlay for kde-base/kmail-3.5.4
Created attachment 97471 [details, diff] Updated patch to work with 3.5.4-r2 Previous patch was against an older version of the KDE source on my system. Sorry about that.
kde-3.5.5 is in the tree