Bug 133691

Summary: When sending mail from kmail the smtp protocol dies
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] kio Reporter: Shane Shields <locutus>
Component: smtpAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO    
Severity: crash CC: bjoern, brad
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Shane Shields 2006-09-07 10:32:37 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.4)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

After upgrading from kde 3.5.3 to kde 3.5.4 and trying to send mail using the smtp protocol it fails with the following message.

Sending failed:
The process for the smtp://hostname protocol died unexpectedly.
The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder until you either fix the problem (e.g. a broken address) or remove the message from the 'outbox' folder.
The following transport protocol was used:
protocolname.

In kde 3.5.3 there were no problems. The same problem has happened on two different computers. Both computers use kubuntu dapper 6.06 and are fully up to date. There is no indication in the logs of any error messages that I could find.

I have tried all different combinations of settings and removed and re-installed kmail and kdebase-kio-plugins with no success.

Here is the relevent excerpt from kmailrc

[Transport 1]
auth=true
authtype=NTLM
encryption=NONE
host=xxxxxxx
id=somenumberideleted
localHostname=
name=Erkunt Tarim
port=25
precommand=
specifyHostname=false
storepass=false
type=smtp
user=xxxxxxxxxxx

[sending mail]
Immediate=true
Quoted-Printable=true
Comment 1 Philip Rodrigues 2006-09-08 15:39:47 UTC
Does it work with a newly created user? 
Comment 2 Shane Shields 2006-09-08 15:57:17 UTC
That is a very good suggestion and I immediately tried it. Unfortunately even with a new user it still doesnt work.
Comment 3 Philip Rodrigues 2007-01-30 19:17:32 UTC
Are you still seeing this problem in 3.5.6?
Comment 4 Shane Shields 2007-01-31 05:48:54 UTC
I have upgraded to edgy and using 3.5.5 I have no problem.
Comment 5 Brad Smith 2007-03-15 22:05:38 UTC
I am running KMail 1.9.6 (KDE 3.5.6) and I am experiencing the same problem. I deleted the kmail settings under ~/.kde and re-setup KMail and still the SMTP process dies whenever it tries to send e-mail. I can see an initial connection to the mail server at the time of the process crashing. I am running this on an OpenBSD 4.1 -current system which comes with gcc 3.3.5.
Comment 6 Thomas McGuire 2007-12-12 23:39:04 UTC
Reassigning the bugs of the SMTP, IMAP and POP ioslaves to kdepim-bugs.
Comment 7 Thomas McGuire 2007-12-12 23:44:45 UTC
Undo autoconfirm.
Comment 8 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-29 22:40:08 UTC
Please report if this is still a problem in KDE 4.3