[kde-linux] Why is Kmail so buggy??

[Rajko M.]

On Thursday 26 February 2009 03:35:25 pm David J Iannucci wrote:
> Let me say first that I really like Kmail a lot.  In spite of its
> problems. I don't want to use something else.  But why is it such a
> piece of c***?
>
> I am once again having a problem that I experienced once before - one
> of my messages fails to display a body.  I only get headers. With just
> blank *white* underneath them.  I should probably mention that I'm
> running 1.9.9 (KDE 3.5.9) within Kontact, on Gentoo Linux. And I'm
> using IMAP.
>
> When this happened before, the message in question remained "body-less"
> for about *three weeks*.  And then the body mysteriously returned (I
> deliberately avoided deleting it).  It does display properly at first,
> and then the body disappears.  And it remains so across *many*
> restartings of Kmail and rebootings of the system. Now I've got another
> one of these crazy messages.  Very irritating.  And it only affects one
> message. Seems like it ought to be related to IMAP implementation.
> Anybody know what this is and if the message can be "fixed"?
>
> This is not the only problem I've had with Kmail.  Far more often than
> should be acceptable for a piece of software labeled version 1.9.9, the
> thing just crashes in a fireball if you do something a little odd (since
> it happens so suddenly and unexpectedly, I can't even keep track of the
> sort of actions that make it crash).

POP accounts.
KMail 1.9.10, KDE 3.5.10, release 21.9 openSUSE. 

Works fine now, though there was similar bug that should be fixed even in 
3.5.9. 

Can you get source (press v). 


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Regards, Rajko