[kdepim-users] Problems in Kmail 1.10.1 on Ubuntu Intrepid

[André M. de Roos]

Op Wednesday 10 December 2008, schreef André M. de Roos:
> I have used Kmail for a long time and I have generally been very impressed
> by it. However, after a recent upgrade from Ubuntu Hardy to Intrepid and
> hence from Kmail 1.9.3 (based on KDE 3.5.9) to Kmail 1.10.1 (based on KDE
> 4.1.2) I noticed that a number of things stopped working which made me
> prefer Kmail over other clients in the first place:
>
> 1. Expansion in kmailrc
> In my kmailrc configuration file I use expansions like:
>
> check-interval[$ie]=$(/home/andre/bin/test-online)
>
> The script "test-online" returns 0 if I'm not on-line (in a train or so)
> and a value of 10 otherwise. This prevents interval mail checking if I am
> not on- line and checks mail every 10 minutes if I am. In Kmail 1.10.1,
> however, this expansion stopped working. I did discover that a similar
> expansion:
>
> default-transport[$ie]=$(/home/andre/bin/test-kmail-smtp)
>
> in the mailtransports file does work, strangely enough.
>

I did some further testing of this configuration problem with as the main 
result confirmation that shell expansion is not working in kmailrc (Kmail 
1.10.3 on Ubuntu Intrepid).

On a freshly installed machine I started up kmail and entered the details of 
my mail account (very basic pop3 configuration). I subsequently closed kmail 
and edited the file .kde/share/config/kmailrc to change

check-interval=0

into 

check-interval[$ie]=$(/home/andre/test-kmail)

The script file test-kmail contains the following 3 lines:

#!/bin/sh
echo 3
exit 0

I made sure that executing /home/andre/test-kmail from the command line gave 
the appropriate result (3). However, starting up kmail with the edited kmailrc 
file does not lead to regular checking of mail at 3 minutes interval, no 
regular email checking is done at all!

I further tested this problem by changing the line to 

check-interval[$e]=$(/home/andre/test-kmail)

so that the value of check-interval is not immutable and (according to the KDE 
documentation) will be changed on start-up of the application. This changing 
indeed happens, but the result is 

check-interval=0

as opposed to the expected check-interval=3.

Any ideas what happened to configuration via shell expansion  after the switch 
to KDE 4?

I filed this bug a while ago as:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177492

Cheers,
Andre
-- 
André M. de Roos
Park Arenberg 40A, 3731 ET De Bilt
Tel. 030-2200991/06-53978960
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