Version: 1.9.4 (using KDE 3.5.4, compiled sources) Compiler: Target: i586-mandriva-linux-gnu OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.17-5mdv When trying to load/preview an e-mail I recently received, which had more than ~30 attachments and was ~4MB in size, the system locked up completely after some initial disk activity. A system reset was then required. I view this as critical - KMail must not bring the whole system down, even if the e-mail it receives is extremely large or complex.
When trying to access the same e-mail on a different machine with more HW resources (but the same software setup), the system froze again for a few minutes with heavy disk activity, probably swapping, but then came back to life with the following message from KMail: 'Error while retrieving information on the structure of a message.' 'The process for the imap://imap228.herald.ox.ac.uk protocol died unexpectedly.' A different e-mail from the same sender, so probably sent from the same client and having the same internal structure, but only with 8 attachments and ~2MB size, did not cause any problems.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 110574 ***