Version: (using KDE KDE 3.3.0) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages This is somewhat related to bug #28623. Interval mail checking makes sense only when your mail server is reachable, the password is ok, etc, i.e. when it's known to succeed. It's a convenience background job after all. If automatic mail checking fails, it will give you an annoying error message every n minutes. The user will think something like "Hell, I KNOW you can't reach my mail server, 'cause I happen to be offline right now. But I don't want to disable the feature because usually I'm online." The expected behavior is to pop up an error only once saying "Error X while checking for mail on account Y. Now disabling automatic mail checking until you restart KMail or a manual check is successul." As a side note, it would also be nice, if accounts on which the user hits cancel on the password dialog would be excluded, too.
I'd say this is the same as an offline mode - which is already in our bugs database. Do you agree?
I assume you're referring to bug #7765. Yes, this is reasonably similar. Please mark this one as duplicate and I'll post my stuff as a comment over there. Thanks for your time!
marked as duplicate - as requested *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7765 ***