Bug 85711

Summary:	don't check mail, when I'm not here
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	mi+kde
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bjoern, claim, luigi.toscano
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	FreeBSD
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Description mi+kde 2004-07-22 19:49:47 UTC

Version:           3.2.3 (using KDE 3.2.3, compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.3 [FreeBSD] 20031106
OS:                FreeBSD (i386) release 5.2-CURRENT

I'd very much like a (per incoming mail server) option to tell KMail to stop checking for new messages, disconnect from the IMAP/POP/whatever server, and shut down the (perpetually buggy) kio_imap4 (or kio_pop3) process once it notices -- through
X-server -- that I'm not here.
Once I'm back, KMail should reconnect to all servers and start checking mail
at the specified interval again.

Instant Messaging clients have this functionality -- they can automaticly set
the "away" state after a certain period of idleness. Obviously, screen-savers manage to notice me going away too.

I'm using my own somewhat underpowered IMAP-server, and don't want it to be
interrogated all night every 5 minutes...

Mail-service providers will certainly appreciate this feature and will be more
likely to recommend KMail to their users, because it will reduce the average
load on their servers -- especially, if this option's checkbox is on by default.

I have also requested the same feature from Mozilla developers:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252645

I wonder, who gets to it first... Thank you!

Comment 1 David Faure 2004-07-22 19:56:02 UTC

Looks like another duplicate of [Bug 7765] Online/offline, no?
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7765

Comment 2 mi+kde 2004-07-22 20:15:22 UTC

Mmm, no. I'm talking about Mozilla _automaticly_ noticing, I'm gone -- without the user pressing a button, which everyone will forget to do anyway.

Screen-savers do this, IM-clients do this, Mozilla should do this.

Comment 3 mi+kde 2004-07-22 20:16:17 UTC

s/Mozilla/KDE/g

sorry :-)

Comment 4 Daniel Molkentin 2004-07-22 20:54:05 UTC

That's nice, but this is KMail ;)

Comment 5 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-19 22:57:08 UTC

I wouldn't want that. If I don't want mails to be checked than I close the application. If it is still open it should continue fetchign mail. Maybe I'm away working somewhere else or watching a film - but I maybe want still get notified about important mail via a sound signal.

Comment 6 Waldemar Szostak 2010-12-29 18:30:37 UTC

I guess it'd be best to have a checkbox (per mail server) to say whether KMail should care about the away mode or not.

Comment 7 Waldemar Szostak 2010-12-29 18:38:16 UTC

Ah.. sorry, forgot to add..

I generally agree with Bjorn, though. If you decided it's too much bothering with the checkboxes (meaning - the new functionality, aware of the away status, would have to be always enabled), it's definitely better to let it stay the way it is now.

Comment 8 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:50:26 UTC

Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.

Comment 9 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-19 00:51:16 UTC

Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.