Bug 174940

Version:           1.10.3 (using KDE 4.1.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Hi

A strange event.. (this is not the bug) I went to check my emails with Kmail (via Kontact) and noticed my USB keyboard was resting on my laptop keyboard so I picked up the USB keyboard and almost immediately hundreds of Kmail windows were spawned... each looking to be a reply message window to a message located in one of my IMAP mailboxes.
I don't know if the USB keyboard was resting on a laptop key (possibly the "R" ?) and releasing the keyboard caused Kmail to launch masses of windows,

I was able to successfully kill the Kontact process to remove all the windows by switching to another run level.
When I restarted Kontact, the same thing happened - got about 600 windows on the screen. It obviously was launching the windows from saved session... killed the Kontact process again.
I did some Googling and the closest I got was to remove the kmailrc and kontactrc files (I moved these aside).
Once I moved them aside, I restarted Kontact and the same thing happened just that the windows were much smaller and neatly tiled on the screen, instead of being full screen... killed the Kontact process again.

I tried su-ing to another system user and launching Kontact via that shell under the new user - got an error message:
$ su otheruser
$ kontact
<unknown program name>(13224)/: KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server

<unknown program name>(13223)/: KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly.

(Ctrl-D)

Did some more Googling and could only find this link:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2005-01/2889.html
Which kind of describes what occurred.

Frustrated, I tried launching Kontact again via the Menu and it launched ok.. but with no IMAP accounts!
I checked my .kde/share/apps/kmail/imap and noticed there were no entries. Luckily they were just IMAP accounts so I recreated them in Kmail and everything is back to normal.
Would moving aside a kmailrc remove the IMAP account details (although my Sending accounts were fine) ?


Unfortunately those are the steps involved in what happened - can't be much more descriptive than that! I don't really want to try an dreproduce it either as my system load hit 4.

What I'd expect to happen:
* have a way to start kmail up without having a previous session respawning (or document it if it already exists)
* avoid removing IMAP accounts without prompting...

Thanks!