Version: (using KDE KDE 3.1.4) Installed from: SuSE RPMs OS: Linux Over a period of weeks, I've had a suspicion that some but not all of my e-mails are not arriving. (POP mail) Today I needed to check my mail. (Interval checking on receive is set to 2 minutes.) The mail activity indicator showed that there were over 130 mails to be received but when transmission completed, only two were showing in the inbox. When I try sending a single test message from a different e-mail account, on another machine, this seems to work OK. However, I tried forwarding approximately twenty messages from another machine and only a few of these arrived. I've tried this with two different ISP's and the same thing happens but not consistently, so I don't know where the problem lies. I've tried setting-up three different e-mail accounts for reception of messages on three physically different machines. The fault occurring with some messages but not all. Is this a bug with KMail or could it be external? I'm experiencing the same problem on receive with both SuSE Linux 8.2 and 9. I'm not technical, so this is about as much information as I can provide.
I had the same behaviour, but I (think I) do know what caused it. I'm using kmail 1.5.4. on KDE 3.1.4-4 RedHat. This week I used tightVNC to access my computer at work from home (normally I use a ssh tunnel) and left an instance of KDE running. The next day I was in the office and noticed that mail had gone missing. I think this was because I had two instances of kmail running. One in the background (the one for the tightVNC session), and one in the forground on the host itself. After I killed the tightVNC kmail client, everything went back to normal. Mail should not be retreived by the client if it can't write to a locked inbox, or at least write to some other file so mail does not get lost.
<EDIT> ...left an instance of KDE running... should be ...left an instance of kmail running.... </edit>
Since changing to broadband the problem seems to have disappeared!
Not reproducible and seems to have resolved itself.