Version: 1.9.50 (using KDE KDE 3.97.0) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages on attempting to download pop email from my BSD server(dovecote) KMail displays in the status bar: [time] transmission for account $account_name complete. 13 messages in 1 KB. then immediately pops up a timeout dialog without downloading any mail. KMail in KDE3.5.8 has no problems connecting to the same server. dovecote reports that I log out immediately after login.
I think this is fixed with using kdelibs from branches/newssl, I haven't seen the timeouts there. TCPSlaveBase in kdelibs is very broken at the moment, but fixed in the newssl branch. If you can still reproduce with the newssl branch (or with kdelibs when the newssl branch gets merged), then please reopen this report.
Thanks. I just turned off ssl/tsl on dovecote and I can download the email so I think that was the problem