[kdepim-users] Problems POP-ing email

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Wednesday 22 April 2009, John Aldrich wrote:
> I've been a long-time user of KMail, beginning around RH5, I think
> (that tells you how long ago THAT was!) This morning, for some
> strange reason, I was unable to retrieve emails via POP3.
>
> The exact error message is as follows: The process for the
> pop3://<mailserver> protocol died unexpectedly

Did you retry it a few times?


> I checked all the log files I could think of (/var/spool/mail/john,
> /var/log/messages) and found nothing to account for the problem.
>
> I know it wasn't my entire system as I was able to telnet on port 110
> to my work POP server, and was able to fire up Evolution and quickly
> configure an email account there as well.
>
> Then when I get to work and log back into my system from remote, I'm
> able to POP email again.
>
> This just does not make sense. Any ideas on where to start trying to
> troubleshoot the problem?

No, no idea. It was probably just a temporay hick-up. As long as it does 
not occur regularly, I wouldn't worry about it.

KDE re-uses io-slaves like the POP3 io-slaves. After some time unused 
io-slaves are terminated. Maybe the POP3 io-slave had some problem and 
it worked again after the problematic io-slave had been terminated and 
a new one started. This is pure speculation, but it would explain your 
observation.

If you happen to run into this problem again, try if killing the POP3 
io-slave kio_pop3 helps.


Regards,
Ingo
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