Bug 151530

Summary:	message disposition notification makes X server freeze
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Hatto Von Hatzfeld <hatto>
Component:	MDN	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	crash	CC:	hatto, martin
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.9.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Hatto Von Hatzfeld 2007-10-29 21:29:52 UTC

Version:           1.9.5 (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

To reproduce this bug:
* configure kmail to ask you in case of a Message Disposition Notification (MDN) request
* configure it to mark displayed messages as read after being displayed 3 seconds
* right-click in the message list on a message which contains a MDN request and has not been displayed before.

At first the context menu will open, after 3 seconds the popup window appears (I suppose that the english version will show the three options "send", "ignore", "deny") - and now the X server is litterally unusable: I can just move the mouse, but neither mouse clicks nor pressed keys show any effect. Not even Alt-Ctrl-Esc (to kill kmail) works; I am just able to kill the X-Server by pressing Alt-Ctrl-Back or to switch to a console (e.g. by Alt-Ctrl-2) in order to kill kmail from there. - At first I thought this bug to be similar to bug 98390, but situation and effect are different.

More than once it happened to me to leave all marks of my mails which is a severe denial of service for my work ...

I have experienced the the bug on a SuSE 10.1 with kmail 1.9.1 (KDE 3.5.1) and confirmed it on a SuSE 10.2 with kmail 1.9.5 (KDE 3.5.5). As a workaround one may configure kmail to mark mails as read without any delay (or to ignore MDNs).

Comment 1 Thomas McGuire 2007-11-01 20:47:19 UTC

Might be related to bug 111786.

Comment 2 Martin Koller 2009-08-30 21:12:55 UTC

works in KDE 4.3.0 without problem.

Comment 3 Hatto Von Hatzfeld 2009-09-02 20:48:05 UTC

Bug is obviously fixed: the MDN confirm window will not pop up before the time for "mark as read" is over.

My version: 1.10.3 [4.1.3 (KDE 4.1.3) "release 4.10.4"]