Known "showstoppers"?

[George Staikos]

On Friday 25 February 2005 12:12, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> George Staikos wrote:
> > 2) The "launch KMail automatically on startup for no apparent reason" bug
> > which is:
> > a) very annoying
> > b) a potential security and privacy threat (laptops on untrusted networks
> > with mail timers set)
> > (Note: I haven't verified to see if this one is still present in HEAD.)
>
> There is a reason: The users probably have created an imap / kolab calendar
> or addressbook resource. Since these resources access the data through dcop
> to kmail, and since korgac is started on login and lots of applications
> access the addressbook (like kopete), they need to start kmail.
>
> It's just necessary to start kmail, but it won't happen in a plain vanilla
> kde installation, only when the users set up an imap resource.

  This is rather ridiculous.  There's no way around it?  At least could it not 
start KMail without showing a window and then immediately closing it again?  
It really needs to prevent mail checks in any case.

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