Bug 92840

Summary: IMAP Folder Properties should have Check for New Mail Include in check checkbox UNchecked by default.
Product: [Applications] kmail Reporter: J. Becker <jamie>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.7   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description J. Becker 2004-11-07 06:12:24 UTC 
Version:           1.7 (using KDE 3.3.1,  (3.1))
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-2)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.9LA

IMAP Folder Properties should have Check for New Mail Include in check checkbox UNchecked by default. For folders with hundreds or thousands of folders (i.e., an INBOX for an Exchange server with hundreds or thousands of Public folders), check for new mail in each and every one of those folders causes a complete hang. (Especially over a VPN tunnel.) This causes the appearance of a crash.

Making it unchecked by default makes the most sense, as people will most likely only want one or a few folders checked for incoming mail and can turn it on on a case by case basis.

Alternatively, please have the Check for New Mail checkbox inherited by children folders, but it should still be unchecked by default as the hang in the Exchange server case (I work for a multi-national corporation with thousands of Public mail folders) prevents me from unchecking even a parent folder before it goes out to lunch.

-Jamie
Comment 1 J. Becker 2004-11-07 06:13:59 UTC 
Oh, one more thought: Folders matching the "INBOX" or ".INBOX" string might have the box checked by default or people might file bug reports that their mail folders aren't picking up new mail.
Comment 2 J. Becker 2004-11-07 17:48:32 UTC 
A quick workaround for those affected by this: open ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc in vi, type

:%s/checkmail=true/checkmail=false/g

and then type ZZ to save and exit. This will set all your folders to not check mail. Then you'll just need to mark your few folders (i.e., Inbox) that need to check mail by right clicking on the individual folders and clicking the "Check for new mail" checkbox
Comment 3 Tom Albers 2005-02-17 21:50:58 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 81716 ***