Bug 114164

Summary: Kmail doesnt always fetch all new messages from POP3 server
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: Pieter Botha <info>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.8.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Pieter Botha 2005-10-10 11:32:48 UTC 
Version:           1.8.2 (using KDE KDE 3.4.2)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

This bug has been in kmail for a long time now. Once started, kmail checks for mail every now and again (5min). Sometimes it gets new e-mail, sometimes not. What is strange is that when I check the mail through web based interface, I see the mail. Then when I press "check mail" in kmail, it checks for new mail.. but no new mail.
Then I close kmail and re-open it, and voila, there it retrieves the mail.

Anyone any ideas?
Comment 1 Philip Rodrigues 2005-10-10 14:36:39 UTC 
Did you perhaps select "Exclude from check mail" for that account? If you kill all the kio_pop3 processes, and then try check mail again, does it work?
Comment 2 Pieter Botha 2005-10-10 22:42:10 UTC 
will try killall as soon as it happens again.
the mail account is not excluded
Comment 3 Pieter Botha 2005-11-09 18:18:31 UTC 
It is too difficult to reproduce the bug and exclude server config. I will monitor this potential problem.
Comment 4 Adam Jimerson 2008-07-20 01:35:21 UTC 
This is happening to me with KDE 4's Kmail, upon checking for mail I get the following error

"Could not connect to host mail.charter.net: Unknown error."

I know that Konqueror from KDE4 has trouble loading websites and I get the same "Unknown error" from Konqueror.  I don't know if the two problems are related but online IMAP is always able to be checked.  I am using a backported KDEPIM from KDE 4.1 Beta 2 onto KDE 4.0.4.
Comment 5 Thomas McGuire 2008-07-20 14:17:54 UTC 
> This is happening to me with KDE 4's Kmail, upon checking for mail I get the following error 
 
> "Could not connect to host mail.charter.net: Unknown error." 
This is something different, see bug 162600.