Bug 160597

Summary: kmail IMAP connector fails to work. Repetitive restarts of the program are needed to access mail.
Product: [Applications] kmail Reporter: Pavel Lastovicka <pavel.lastovicka>
Component: IMAPAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: bjoern
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Pavel Lastovicka 2008-04-09 08:55:23 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 3.5.9)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

My IMAP setup works some time after I start kmail (via kontact). But after a while not using the mail, kmail hangs somewhere during periodic check of mail. The progress indicator is stuck with some number, which is sometimes negative! (often -1%). Which is worse that the stuck operation cannot be aborted by clicking on the close button of the progress dialog. It then just says "aborting" forever.
  I think the problem might be caused because of my wifi connection to net, which is not too reliable. But TCP layer and kmail should cope with that.
  The severity could be crash because it is needed to restart program to work again.
Comment 1 Jan Essert 2009-04-04 13:23:08 UTC
Could you please give us more information about your setup? Is the problem still valid? Is there perhaps some useful console output?
Comment 2 Pavel Lastovicka 2009-04-06 10:59:16 UTC
My setup changed, I am connected via Ethernet now. Also I can not remember now how often the problem occurred. I did not have an Internet connection for last three months.
Comment 3 Björn Ruberg 2010-01-16 23:38:32 UTC
Having unstable wifi connections sometimes too, but never hangs in KDE 4.3.