KMail launching on startup again

George Staikos staikos at kde.org
Fri Feb 18 23:51:18 GMT 2005


On Friday 18 February 2005 18:46, Helio Chissini de Castro wrote:
> On Friday 18 February 2005 02:48, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 February 2005 21:59, George Staikos wrote:
> > >   We had this bug before and I think it was kopete's fault but I'm not
> > > entirely sure.  When I log into KDE, kmail is automatically started. 
> > > a) I never use kmail directly, only via kontact.  b) I didn't leave it
> > > running when I logged out.  c) This wasn't happening until my recent
> > > update. Anyone know what's going on here?
> >
> > i have this because i have an imap resource in use.  could that be it?
> >
> Definitivey Kopete, but isn't a fault.
> Using kmail imap groupware plus the kopete notification leads every time
> kopete is up, kmail needs be up.
> And this is a correct behaviour, since kmail need be started to use
> groupware things, or am i missing something ?
> Solution ? Disable IMAP resource functionality, or disable online status
> based on kopete.

  This wasn't a problem until recently.  It should just idle that 
communication while KMail isn't running if that's such a problem.  Starting 
KMail is completely unacceptable, and in fact it's a security problem for 
those who have mail checks on a timer.

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George Staikos
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