Bug 117141 - kontact summary is not updated on new mails
Summary: kontact summary is not updated on new mails
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: kontact
Classification: Applications
Component: summary (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Keywords:
: 222742 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2005-11-27 16:23 UTC by Mathias Homann
Modified: 2012-04-21 11:09 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Mathias Homann 2005-11-27 16:23:49 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

seems like the summary page autoupdate bug is back.
Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2005-11-27 16:33:27 UTC
Works fine here (3.5 r477777). It updated on its own.
Comment 2 Mathias Homann 2005-11-27 16:41:15 UTC
well it doesnt here (kde 3.5 rc2 packages made by suse).
also, no passive window with "new mails" when new mails arrive.
Comment 3 Mathias Homann 2005-11-27 16:47:51 UTC
hm.

when kmail does the check for new mail on its own, it doesnt update the summary page, and it doesnt pop up a notification for new mail.

when i check manually by pressing ctrl-l, it updates the summary and pops up the notification window.
Comment 4 Mathias Homann 2005-11-27 16:50:22 UTC
btw, where do i see the exact kde version, like that "kde 3.5 r477777" up there?
Comment 5 Thiago Macieira 2005-11-27 16:55:59 UTC
You have: "RC2".
Comment 6 Mathias Homann 2005-11-27 17:03:41 UTC
is that newer or older than r477777?

and btw, i narrowed it down a bit...

updating of summary, as well as the creation of popup notifications (and thus, making kttsd holler at me) DOES work for local accounts (/var/mail/username files). it does NOT happen for new mail arriving in imap accounts.

and since local mail in /var/mail is only output from cronjobs and such, and ALL "real" email for me happens in several imap accounts, this is sort of annoying.
Comment 7 Thiago Macieira 2005-11-27 17:10:26 UTC
Yours is newer.
Comment 8 Mathias Homann 2005-11-27 17:43:22 UTC
that doesn't necessarily mean its better.
happens all the time that old bugs reappear...

anyways, it seems that this bug is a heisenbug, or a mandelbug, as the more and more i try to narrow it down, the more and more random it gets.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/heisenbug.html
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/mandelbug.html
Comment 9 Mathias Homann 2005-11-27 17:45:52 UTC
here's another fun fact about this:

when i change into an imap folder that has gotten new mails lately, AND another new mail since kmail last looked for new mails in that folder, the notification window comes up, and the summary is updated when i switch back to summary.
Comment 10 Mathias Homann 2005-11-28 21:21:06 UTC
and yet another detail:

kmail tray icon shows new mails have arrived, but summary still says "no unread mail".
so i switch to kmail by clicking on the mail button on the left, and back to summary without opening any of my accounts... and the mail summary gets updated.

remember, all accounts affected by this are imap accounts.
Comment 11 Mathias Homann 2005-11-29 21:17:31 UTC
upodated to todays release version... and its still the same.
Comment 12 Mathias Homann 2006-04-01 01:42:06 UTC
bug is still there in 3.5.2
Comment 13 wuselwu 2006-06-12 07:27:56 UTC
Just for the record: On open SUSE 10.1 with KDE 3.5.3 I have this problem, too (like in all previous 3.5.x releases on the previous SUSEs): The summary component doesn't display the new mails in my IMAP account, or only unreliably with quite some delay. Which makes this part of the kontact summary pretty useless :-(.
Comment 14 Mathias Homann 2006-07-15 17:52:29 UTC
updated to suse 10.0 and kde 3.5.3, its still there.
and i wholeheartedly agree with comment #13.
Comment 15 Mathias Homann 2006-08-02 11:11:21 UTC
suse 10.0 and kde 3.5.4 by now, bug still here.
could someone at least ACKNOWLEDGE this bug?
Comment 16 timocin 2008-10-05 13:41:19 UTC
It works fine on svn trunk r867544. If it reappear reopen this bug
Comment 17 Mathias Homann 2009-05-14 12:38:09 UTC
reopened... bug is back in kde 4.2.3 !
Comment 18 Mathias Homann 2009-09-09 14:32:07 UTC
bug still exists in KDE 4.3.1 !!! If that is not confirmation enough then I Don't know what would be.
Comment 19 Mathias Homann 2010-06-07 12:48:12 UTC
bug still exists in KDE 4.4.3!!!
Comment 20 Christophe Marin 2010-10-01 08:13:03 UTC
*** Bug 222742 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 21 Andrés C 2011-10-22 16:20:06 UTC
Got a new mail on a pop 3 account and another in google, but summary does not report them. 

The funny thing is that the mail component in kontact does, but not the summary.
Comment 22 Christophe Marin 2012-04-21 11:09:57 UTC
Works nicely in recent kontact versions.

Closing