User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0 Build Identifier: kmail+kdepim version 4.7.4. I fetch mails through POP3. I receive a lot of spam. Occasionally, one of these spam mails has no body. kmail's behaviour in this case is: It fetches all mails that arrived prior to that particular mail, including that particular mail, but it does not delete any of the mails. Therefore, when I fetch mails again, the same mails arrive again, leading to duplicates. But I can not access/download the mails that arrived that particular one! Blocked! I have to go out and delete the particular mail manually, like in the transcript below. After this, kmail can again fetch mails normally. ============================= TRANSCRIPT ========================== $ telnet post.strato.de pop3 Trying 81.169.145.136... Connected to post.strato.de. Escape character is '^]'. +OK POP3 server ready <52f96570x12ed9606a9ce.barnabe@pop3.strato.de> USER bruno%haible.de +OK Waiting for password PASS ******** +OK User logged in, proceed. (44) LIST +OK 65 messages, listing follows: 1 19847 2 22202 3 27635 4 6258 5 6427 6 1303 7 2227 8 6157 9 54174 10 5798 11 13346 12 116417 13 6084 14 4606 15 4249 16 7942 17 150524 18 3093 19 2657 20 51998 21 3295 22 3314 23 4267 24 9648 25 12132 26 5002 27 5005 28 23156 29 7794 30 2209 31 4500 32 11763 33 4178 34 3610 35 4061 36 4150 37 7152 38 2774 39 11317 40 918 41 2319 42 2149 43 4964 44 3923 45 5688 46 2589 47 3995 48 3701 49 3404 50 3552 51 4648 52 7542 53 7497 54 3877 55 6844 56 3745 57 5390 58 4386 59 72790 60 3381 61 4386 62 4385 63 2193 64 7701 65 4564 . RETR 6 +OK Message follows: X-Envelope-From: <bruno@haible.de> X-Envelope-To: <bruno@haible.de> X-Delivery-Time: 1331896937 X-UID: 134488 Return-Path: <bruno@haible.de> X-Authentication-Results: mailin.rzone.de (andre mi30) (RZmta 28.1) header.From=haible.de; dkim=pass To: bruno@haible.de X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mi Received: from mo-p00-ob6.rzone.de ([IPv6:2a01:238:20a:202:53f0::1]) by mailin.rzone.de (andre mi30) (RZmta 28.1 OK) with ESMTP id 407263o2GAlkeC for <bruno@haible.de>; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:22:17 +0100 (MET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1331896937; l=0; s=domk; d=haible.de; h=X-RZG-CLASS-ID:Date:From:X-RZG-AUTH; bh=2jmj7l5rSw0yVb/vlWAYkK/YBwk=; b=dgKi9yjCFvRn/841CqHHMBkhXzTipmpsZKAdGmGnKDrh5XcElFh9yUZ1ji6dLrn2bmX XR41E/NW728EFlvEksK4golGj5l0WqEWknYKeLUid8pJINqUKZSaxWdaZZq9Q2JFn0x95 jUm3ihQkHULsJczIo/M8Wqp2Ufd9PNkmI5c= X-RZG-AUTH: :Ln4Re0+Ic/6oZXR1YgKryK8brksyK8dozXDwHXjf9hj/zDNRbvY44zMkpA== From: bruno@haible.de Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:22:17 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <Y02bb7o2GB8BLD.RZmta@mo-p00-ob.rzone.de> X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Received: from linuix.haible.de (dslb-088-068-070-142.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.68.70.142]) by smtp.strato.de (jimi mo5) (RZmta 28.1 DYNA|AUTH) with ESMTPA id Y02bb7o2GB8BLD ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:22:17 +0100 (MET) . . DELE 6 +OK Message 6 deleted QUIT +OK Closing connection Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get spammed. 2. Wait until a spam mail arrives that has no body. 3. Fetch mails. The one with no body is the last one. Nothing more is received. 4. Fetch mails again. The same mails are received again. but still none of those after the mail with no body. Actual Results: No mails past the particular one can be received. Expected Results: A mail with empty body should be handled like all other mails.
Created attachment 69682 [details] An example mail that causes kmail to stop fetching mails
This bug has only been reported for versions before 4.14, which have been unsupported for at least two years now. Can anyone tell if this bug still present? If noone confirms this bug for a Framework-based version of kmail2 (version 5.0 or later, as part of KDE Applications 15.12 or later), it gets closed in about three months.
Just as announced in my last comment, I close this bug. If you encounter it again in a recent version (at least 5.0 aka 15.08), please open a new one unless it already exists. Thank you for all your input.