Bug 109036

Summary:	no way to cancel contacting a remote mail server
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	mi+kde
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	d.hentrich, mh+kde-bugs, sebastian.held
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.8.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	FreeBSD
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Description mi+kde 2005-07-13 19:56:56 UTC

Version:           1.8.1 (using KDE 3.4.1, compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728
OS:                FreeBSD (i386) release 5.4-STABLE

I have a POP3 server, which I only check occasionally -- it is excluded from the "check messages" list.

After trying to visit it recently using the latest KMail, I found out, that I don't remember the password (or, rather, KMail could not find it after an upgrade from KDE-3.3.2). So, when KMail asked me for it, I said "Cancel".

The password dialog disappeared, but kept coming back every 5-10 seconds until I restarted KMail...

Which part of the word "Cancel" could not the program understand?

Comment 1 Neil Youngman 2006-07-14 15:03:30 UTC

This bug is still present in Kmail 1.9.1 (KDE 3.5.2)

Comment 2 Andreas Kling 2006-09-02 14:48:39 UTC

*** Bug 132432 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Andreas Kling 2006-09-02 14:49:01 UTC

*** Bug 133437 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Robert Knight 2006-10-18 16:59:43 UTC

I can confirm this as well.  In my case I specified the wrong server for my IMAP account.  Consequently KMail failed to connect and refused to stop attempting to connect.

Comment 5 min 2006-10-31 02:30:41 UTC

I can confirm this with KDE 3.5.4 on FreeBSD 6.1

What's worse is that it's not even possible to tell KMail to stop checking the server altogether, it will just ignore the settings. This makes it completely useless until the server comes back.

Comment 6 min 2006-10-31 02:35:07 UTC

In case it's of any help, this is most likely a regression of http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93199

Comment 7 min 2006-10-31 02:39:27 UTC

And this bug report itself is the same as http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122096.

It's just that this one is about wrong password, and that one is about wrong authentication method. But the problem is the same, "Cancel" doesn't cancel.

Comment 8 Bram Schoenmakers 2006-10-31 09:11:26 UTC

*** Bug 122096 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Bram Schoenmakers 2006-10-31 09:14:07 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 93199 ***