[Bug 300351] New: Annoying notifications "Connection to server lost", multiple KWallet requests to re-connect

[comet.friend at gmx.net]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300351

            Bug ID: 300351
          Severity: normal
           Version: unspecified
          Priority: NOR
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
           Summary: Annoying notifications "Connection to server lost",
                    multiple KWallet requests to re-connect
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux
          Reporter: comet.friend at gmx.net
          Hardware: Slackware Packages
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
         Component: misc
           Product: kmail2

First of all, this is probably related to, but not the same as the following
bugs:
289726, 290882, 293024, 296033.

I have set up some 20 email accounts, most of them are IMAP accounts, but there
are also a few POP3 accounts. Initially I've set different time intervals for
fetching email from all of them, although I learned just a few minutes ago,
that this might not make a lot of sense for IMAP. 

Problem 1: Annoying notifications
Anyway, the problem  no. 1 is, that I quite often get very annoying
notifications "Connection to server lost". These notifications don't come in
one at a time, but are bombed at me all at once, some of them multiple times
within less than a second. (Typically, they seem to appear either once or three
time per lost connection).
One situation when this happens is when my provider cuts the connections once
every 24 hours. The message as such is correct, then, but I would like to get
rid of the very annoying sound, at least. However, I haven't found a settings
option that would allow me to do this, without switching off KDE PIM
notifications altogether.

Problem  2: KWallet
The second problem is that Akonadi resources are de-activated for lost
connections. When the time is there to fetch mail, I have to re-issue my
password for KWallet. Unfortunately, this is not only necessary once, but
KWallet is opened for each account again, individualll, so I have to enter the
very same passphrase 20 times, in the worst case. With KMail 1 KWallet was only
called once, which is in fact how it *shoud* work.

Please note, that none of my accounts is Google. So the suspected cause of
problems as described in some other bugs, is not limited to Google mail
accounts. But as some others say, the problem occurs only after KMail2 has been
running for while. Right after starting it, there's usually no problem.



Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create  multiple email accounts, IMAP and POP3, preferrably at multlple mail
providers.
2. Set intervals for fetching email from all of them (including the IMAP
accounts!).
3. Re-start KMail2, or maybe better your whole KDE session
4. Have KMail2 running for a while (up to 25 hours at a maximum may be
necessary)
5. Look what happens to some or all of the relevant Akonadi resources, when
your ISP cuts connections (most providers to that). Depending on your ISP and
hardware (DSL modem, router...), you may be able to configure the time to fall
into an hour of your choice.

This should give you a good chance to reproduce the problem for one specific
situation (ISP cuts connection). However, there seem to other situations, when
the issue comes up, but they are hard to reproduce.
Actual Results:  
see description

Expected Results:  
1. Behaviour should be like with KMail 1: Notification is there, when
connection is lost, but much more discrete.
2. Lost connections should be re-established automatically in the background. 
3. KWallet should not bother the user with password requests. If nececessar, at
all, ther should only be one request to enter the KWallet passphrase, not one
per account.

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