Version: 3.2.3 (using KDE 3.2.3, compiled sources) Compiler: gcc version 3.3.3 [FreeBSD] 20031106 OS: FreeBSD (i386) release 5.2-CURRENT I'd very much like a (per incoming mail server) option to tell KMail to stop checking for new messages, disconnect from the IMAP/POP/whatever server, and shut down the (perpetually buggy) kio_imap4 (or kio_pop3) process once it notices -- through X-server -- that I'm not here. Once I'm back, KMail should reconnect to all servers and start checking mail at the specified interval again. Instant Messaging clients have this functionality -- they can automaticly set the "away" state after a certain period of idleness. Obviously, screen-savers manage to notice me going away too. I'm using my own somewhat underpowered IMAP-server, and don't want it to be interrogated all night every 5 minutes... Mail-service providers will certainly appreciate this feature and will be more likely to recommend KMail to their users, because it will reduce the average load on their servers -- especially, if this option's checkbox is on by default. I have also requested the same feature from Mozilla developers: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252645 I wonder, who gets to it first... Thank you!
Looks like another duplicate of [Bug 7765] Online/offline, no? http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7765
Mmm, no. I'm talking about Mozilla _automaticly_ noticing, I'm gone -- without the user pressing a button, which everyone will forget to do anyway. Screen-savers do this, IM-clients do this, Mozilla should do this.
s/Mozilla/KDE/g sorry :-)
That's nice, but this is KMail ;)
I wouldn't want that. If I don't want mails to be checked than I close the application. If it is still open it should continue fetchign mail. Maybe I'm away working somewhere else or watching a film - but I maybe want still get notified about important mail via a sound signal.
I guess it'd be best to have a checkbox (per mail server) to say whether KMail should care about the away mode or not.
Ah.. sorry, forgot to add.. I generally agree with Bjorn, though. If you decided it's too much bothering with the checkboxes (meaning - the new functionality, aware of the away status, would have to be always enabled), it's definitely better to let it stay the way it is now.
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