[Bug 158599] New: KMail hangs when fetching email from IMAP server

[Henning Schnoor]

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           Summary: KMail hangs when fetching email from IMAP server
           Product: kmail
           Version: 1.9.6
          Platform: SuSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: henning.schnoor gmx net


Version:           1.9.6 (using KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

When KMail is used with an IMAP account having an INBOX with many messages (880 in this case), when fetching new messages, KMail hangs. The progress bar remains at 0%.

Expected Behaviour:

 KMail should download the mail headers and display new messages.

How to Reproduce:

 create an IMAP account. Copy lots of messages (several hundred) into the INBOX. Configure KMail to use that account. After initial fetching the mail (which works fine), click on "Get New Messages" (or wait until the auto-timer does it), and the program will hang.

Not that this is on IMAP, not on POP (there is an old bug relating to the issue on a POP server, I am not sure if this is related, but in this setting, I used KMail only on IMAP, without any POP accounts configured).