Bug 256559

Summary:	kmail (viewer?) queues multiple/redundant message downloads
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	happy <hh.kde.crash>
Component:	messageviewer	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	katzfiller15
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.13.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
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Description happy 2010-11-10 22:36:15 UTC

Version: 1.13.5 (using KDE 4.5.1)
OS: Linux

I had the "detailed progress" selected (ie: the arrow that shows the tasks queued) because I had a large email message that I was moving.

Anyway, while this was still up, I chose a new folder to display and kmail began to refresh the message view for the selected meail and the attached screenshot is the result. Note that there is multiple reads for a single message queued with *only one* 'update' pending... I wasn't clicking lots of times etc.

I'm assuming that this is a real issue and not a display artefact with the "progress indicator/task queue" thingy...

I've marked this as "severity-crash" not because I experienced any crash but because I believe having seen this kind of problem before that it (multiple downloads queued) could possibly be a cause of other threading/queuing related crashes.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
Happened in this session as often as I tried, often enough that I could start the screen capture app and grab a snapshot.

Seem to work always with a message not already downloaded (not cached?)
Choose a message not already or recently displayed and make sure that the "detailed" progress stuff is visible.

Actual Results:
For messages not alread cached, multiple

Expected Results:
single read of message queued, message display blocks until read works or fails.

OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.35-22-generic-pae
Compiler: cc
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Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2015-04-12 10:20:27 UTC

Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback.

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