Bug 287424

Version:           4.7 (using KDE 4.7.2) 
OS:                Linux


I have one IMAP account setup, it started to download my email and all seemed ok until I realise that my hard drive is full. After investigating, it appears that KDE is writing the following string to my ~/.xsession-errors file:

The stream parser raised an exception: Inconsistent state, probably due to some packet loss


This is really really bad because even after nulling it, it fills up REALLY fast. Putting an error message in such a fast loop seems really bad design to me, regardless of what the root cause is. The file is growing at a rate of about 6MB/sec.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Setup a single account using IMAP. It's an exchange server. Works fine with the old kmail1. There is about 10G of mail, which it was downloading ok initially. 

Actual Results:  
No new mail downloaded and hard drive fills up causing MANY things to break. Even my text editor refused to run because it could not create a temporary file.

Expected Results:  
!Actual Results

I did actually loose some data because the first time that it happened I could not save some files that I had open.

Regardless of if the root cause is found or not, something needs to be done to at least slow down those messages. Even if a dirty sleep was placed, it would limit the messages such that the hard drive would almost never fill up.