Bug 88205

Summary: Disable interval mail checking for accounts that had errors in the current session.
Product: [Applications] kmail Reporter: Georg Wittenburg <georg.wittenburg>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
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Description Georg Wittenburg 2004-08-27 11:46:56 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.0)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

This is somewhat related to bug #28623.

Interval mail checking makes sense only when your mail server is reachable, the password is ok, etc, i.e. when it's known to succeed. It's a convenience background job after all.

If automatic mail checking fails, it will give you an annoying error message every n minutes. The user will think something like "Hell, I KNOW you can't reach my mail server, 'cause I happen to be offline right now. But I don't want to disable the feature because usually I'm online." The expected behavior is to pop up an error only once saying "Error X while checking for mail on account Y. Now disabling automatic mail checking until you restart KMail or a manual check is successul."

As a side note, it would also be nice, if accounts on which the user hits cancel on the password dialog would be excluded, too.
Comment 1 Carsten Burghardt 2004-08-27 14:07:04 UTC 
I'd say this is the same as an offline mode - which is already in our bugs
database. Do you agree?
Comment 2 Georg Wittenburg 2004-08-27 14:44:19 UTC 
I assume you're referring to bug #7765. Yes, this is reasonably similar. Please mark this one as duplicate and I'll post my stuff as a comment over there.

Thanks for your time!
Comment 3 Andreas Gungl 2004-08-27 14:47:02 UTC 
marked as duplicate - as requested

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7765 ***