(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***) Package: kmail Version: 1.4.1 (using KDE 3.0.1 ) Severity: wishlist Installed from: Unspecified Linux Compiler: gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease) OS: Linux OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified In KDE2 KMail didn't report any failure when downloading mails. Now (KDE3) it shows dialog with user and password but when it shows it it stops to connect to any receive-accounts until user fills the dialog. Usually the download fails because of server overload and next try is successful. So... I think it's good to show the error but when user doesn't fill the dialog (he's sleeping etc ;) ) it simply should to retry on the background and if successful it should remove that dialog. (Submitted via bugs.kde.org) (Called from KBugReport dialog. Fields Application KDE Version OS Compiler manually changed)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 May 2002 21:00 kvr@centrum.cz wrote: > > In KDE2 KMail didn't report any failure when downloading mails. Now (KDE3) > it shows dialog with user and password but when it shows it it stops to The password dialog is not an error dialog. If KMail doesn't know your password it obviously can't connect to your server. You can tell KMail to store that in its config file if you don't want to reenter it always. > connect to any receive-accounts until user fills the dialog. Usually the > download fails because of server overload and next try is successful. > So... I think it's good to show the error but when user doesn't fill the > dialog (he's sleeping etc ;) ) it simply should to retry on the background > and if successful it should remove that dialog. I don't fully understand what you want sorry. Regards Michael Häckel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE88oZge9KEPyN2R8URAo2eAJ9clZROLt5Cafbvl7HQ1Euj4Geg+gCfQPLT OiFGJJ4BEdIvGYbjezQGLkc= =xE34 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 May 2002 21:17 Michael Häckel wrote: > On Monday 27 May 2002 21:00 kvr@centrum.cz wrote: > > In KDE2 KMail didn't report any failure when downloading mails. Now > > (KDE3) it shows dialog with user and password but when it shows it it > > stops to > > The password dialog is not an error dialog. > > If KMail doesn't know your password it obviously can't connect to your > server. You can tell KMail to store that in its config file if you don't > want to reenter it always. I typed it already so KMail does know the password the problem is that it shows the password dialog when the (pop3 for example) fails. Try the following: Run KMail create pop3 account (set Check interval to one minute) and click on "Check Mail In" and type the password. Then confuse KMail with incompatible protocol for example redirect it to ftp-port: iptables -t nat -I OUTPUT -p tcp --dport pop3 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 21 On next check it fails and shows the password dialog although it was already typed. And stops receiving e-mails until user types the password again. As you said there is possibility to tell KMail to store it in config file it works then but first problem is security and another problem - user isn't informed if receive (connect auth ...) fails. > > connect to any receive-accounts until user fills the dialog. Usually the > > download fails because of server overload and next try is successful. > > So... I think it's good to show the error but when user doesn't fill the > > dialog (he's sleeping etc ;) ) it simply should to retry on the > > background and if successful it should remove that dialog. > > I don't fully understand what you want sorry. I hope now it's better. As I was trying with password in config file I found out the problem above. So I think good solution would be: when receive fails don't show password dialog but error dialog and continue to connect and receive mails on the background. If the next one is successful hide that error dialog. - -- Zbynek Vyskovsky rat@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.czhttp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~rat/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE88plXkEjKs0GDlxERAiJoAJwOgWcyWaHdCvIkOsJklfqTrtZMfACdH8nL Fv/JB1ZB28822nMOqYqj0yE= =WEK7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 May 2002 22:38 Zbynek Vyskovsky wrote: > > I typed it already so KMail does know the password the problem is that > it shows the password dialog when the (pop3 for example) fails. Try the > following: > Run KMail create pop3 account (set Check interval to one minute) and > click on "Check Mail In" and type the password. > Then confuse KMail with incompatible protocol for example redirect it to This is intended behaviour. The problem is that the POP3 protocol doesn't allow the mail client to distinguish if the password was wrong or the login failed for some other reason. In KDE 2.x there was the problem that if the user entered the password wrong he did have to restart KMail in order to type the correct one. If the password is stored in the configuration KMail assumes that the password is most likely correct but the problem is elsewhere. If the password is entered every time KMail assumes that the password is wrong. However maybe not asking again if the login was successful at least once could slightly improve the situation. Regards Michael Häckel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE88xzHe9KEPyN2R8URAg1hAJ0eyNykdrhq36B2GTGXUTvT0Dx5GQCeNBjs 7umLf+MHKxOxCuEKDnclUBI= =yJqt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39097 ***