Version: (using KDE 4.3.4) OS: Linux Installed from: RedHat RPMs Currently, when Kmail encounters an error when checking an email account, it displays an error dialog for each account that fails. Obviously, having an indication that the check failed is very important, but a dialog is overboard. Usually, the problem is transient; if I have Kmail minimized while I'm doing something else, I really don't care if it failed to check once if it works the next time. Nearly every day, I come home from work to find that at least one of my email accounts had a hiccup, and I get to know about it because the error dialog is still there, hours later, even though the problem was a one time thing. I shouldn't have to deal with this. An example, I think, of how to do it right, is the way Apple's Mail.app program works. If the autocheck fails for an account, it grays the account and displays a warning icon next to the account. Clicking on the icon gives you more data about why the account is "temporarily offline" and if the check works the next time you check mail, the icon goes away and everything is back to normal.
Couldn't agree more, I get KMail errors every day, truly annoying.
This is fixed in KDE 4.4. You get only small notifcations from the notification area
No, it's not fixed. The situation has improved slightly, but I still get a dialog box sitting there in the system tray if a connection fails when KMail is not the active application. The notifications only happen when KMail is the active application, which is certainly better than it was before, but it's still not great. This is in KDE SC 4.4.1, KMail 1.13.1.
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.
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