Version: (using KDE 4.3.1) Installed from: openSUSE RPMs I have two email accounts hosted by gmail and have KMail set to be always shown in the system tray. KMail is also set to check email when started. Whenever I login KDE loads my previous session, so KMail is opened. Every time I login KMail gives two error dialogs. Both have the title "Error - KMail", and say "Unknown host pop.gmail.com". If I close the dialogs and open KMail I can check my email without any problem. Closing KMail and opening it again works fine too.
Are you using NetworkManager? If so is the connection opened when KMail tries to check mail?
Yes I've just installed openSUSE 11.2 from the KDE live CD. How would I check that the connection is opened? That sounds like the most likely reason for this problem. For now I've just disabled the check email on startup option, but I guess I could set KDE to load a fresh session and use a script to wait a small amount of time then load KMail. I feel that this is something a lot of people might come across though, so could KMail wait for a network connection to be opened before checking for email, or if an error occurs, wait a small amount of time and try to connect again?
You are right. This has already been wished. See duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 172130 ***