Bug 298136

Summary: notification about "connection to server lost" should be more tolerant
Product: [Applications] kmail2 Reporter: m.wege
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: asraniel, comet.friend, iamnotsurethat
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.8.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description m.wege 2012-04-14 18:19:02 UTC 
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I quite often receive a notification about the connection to the server been lost. This happens for example when I move from cable connection to wifi and vica versa. Or when the internet connection is slow and the connection to the server ist lost for a moment. The problem about this is that when the notification has arrived, the connection has already been reestablished and is quite useless and is distracting. I would suggest to show the notification only when the connection is lost and can not be reestablished within a certain time frame. I do not know what is reasonable, may be 5 or 10 seconds. In this case the notification would only be shown when it really matters, when it is likely that the reason for the interruption will last longer.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 comet.friend 2012-05-20 11:57:51 UTC 
I support the request! As I have some 20 mail accounts I, too, get a lot of annoying notifications. One situation when I am really bombed with them is when my provider cuts connection once every 24 hours. While the message as such is correct, then, I have to say, that:

1. The sound is getting on my nerves and I haven't found a way to switch it off, without switching off KDE PIM notifications, at all.
2. Other mail clients don't behave like this, and earlier KMail versions didn't have the problem.
Comment 2 iamnotsurethat 2012-07-25 02:09:49 UTC 
I've been encountering the same problem here. I get the notification every two or three minutes, and I've only got 4 email accounts! Wish this fixed in the next update. Thanks