[Bug 242598] New mail check on an IMAP account (Gmail) sometimes halts

[Gregor Petrin]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242598

Gregor Petrin <gregap at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Gregor Petrin <gregap at gmail.com> ---
I can confirm this also happens regularly on my work machine with a reasonably
fast & stable internet connection, and not just with GMail accounts. Most often
it is stuck while syncing a folder but I have also seen it stick while
'establishing connection'. Most of these folder do not contain massive amounts
of email and also very rarely get new messages. Sometimes it hangs on folders
where the oldest message is more than 2 years old so it's definitely not the
case of massive attachments being downloaded. Could there not be a timeout
added to stop syncing a folder if nothing got transferred for a certain period?

In my case, what works is going into settings -> configure kmail -> accounts ->
<specific account> -> modify and then clicking OK. This seems to reset that
account. The problem is made worse as KMail does not notify users that
something went wrong (because obviously it thinks nothing is wrong) so I have
sometimes missed important emails until it was too late.

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