Bug 175325

Summary: kmail gives message: "Unknown host Temporary failure in name resolution"
Product: [Applications] kmail Reporter: Cyrill Helg <phlogi1>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: bjoern
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.10.90   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Cyrill Helg 2008-11-16 20:42:49 UTC 
Version:           1.10.90 (using 4.1.72 (KDE 4.1.72 (KDE 4.2 >= 20081104)), Gentoo)
Compiler:          i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.27-zen3-IBM-T43

Actually kmail should detect if there is an internet connection available or not. However it does show the message periodically if I'm not connected.

Unknown host Temporary failure in name resolution

That message should imho be supressed.
Comment 1 Jaime Torres 2008-11-19 16:46:18 UTC 
Hello,

  It is almost impossible to know if there is an internet connection available or not (by router, by USB, by ethernet ....). It is possible to know if you can reach a machine or not, or if you can reach your dns server or not (the message you get).

  By the way, the message is a message box you have to click or a popup window that dissapears after some time?
Comment 2 Cyrill Helg 2008-11-19 17:26:34 UTC 
I thought that solid should be able to do that? I mean for normal mail checking this works great since kde4. Its just this only message. (message box btw)
Comment 3 Jaime Torres 2008-11-19 20:55:12 UTC 
The wish is to add a checkbox like "don't inform me anymore" in the message box, or transform the message box into an informative popup.
Comment 4 Björn Ruberg 2010-02-02 01:11:45 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 172130 ***