Version: (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources Compiler: gcc 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2) OS: Linux pop3s accounts do not work within kmail (it works fine with kmail3): my settings are ssl for encryption and clear text for authentification. Port is 995 when I ask to get new mails, I get an error : The process for the pop3s://pop.myserver.org protocol died unexpectedly. Output in terminal : kmail(13416) KMail::AccountManager::processNextCheck: processNextCheck, remaining 1 kmail(13416) KMail::NetworkAccount::mailCheckCanProceed: for host "pop.myserver.org" current connections= 0 and limit is 0 kmail(13416) KMail::NetworkAccount::mailCheckCanProceed: connection limit reached: false kmail(13416) KMail::AccountManager::processNextCheck: processing next mail check for "myserver" kmail(13416) KMail::NetworkAccount::setCheckingMail: check mail started - connections for host "pop.myserver.org" now is 1 kmail(13416)/kio (Slave) KIO::Slave::createSlave: createSlave ' "pop3s" ' for "pop3s://myname@pop.myserver.org:995" kmail(13416)/kio (KIOConnection) KIO::ConnectionServer::listenForRemote: Listening on "local:/tmp/ksocket-greg/kmailE13416.slave-socket" kmail(13416)/kio (Slave) KIO::Slave::gotInput: slave died pid = 13419 kmail(13416)/kdeui (KNotification) KNotification::slotReceivedId: 0 kmail(13416)/kdeui (KNotification) KNotification::~KNotification: 0 kmail(13416)/kio (Slave) KIO::Slave::timeout: slave failed to connect to application pid= 13419 protocol= "pop3s" kmail(13416)/kio (Slave) KIO::Slave::timeout: Houston, we lost our slave, pid= 13419 kmail(13416)/kio (Slave) KIO::Slave::timeout: slave died pid = 13419 kmail(13416)/kio (KIOJob) KIO::Job::doKill: Job::kill this= KIO::TransferJob(0xfa43b0) KIO::TransferJob
I can not reproduce this. Someone on IRC had the same problem, and he told me it was solved by updating kdepimlibs. So make sure you compile an up-to-date kdepimlibs and kdepim. If you then can still reproduce the problem, please reopen this report.