[kdepim-users] Kmail Bug 245943

[ianseeks]

On Wednesday 11 Aug 2010 20:59:36 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 August 2010, ianseeks wrote:
> > On Saturday 31 Jul 2010 09:19:11 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > > On Saturday 31 July 2010, ianseeks wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > > 
> > > > DO you know how long it takes for the guys to check bugs.kde.org
> > > > for new major bugs?
> > > 
> > > Yes. It can take forever. I'm serious. KMail is a volunteer-project
> > > and nobody is obliged (because he is paid to do so) to check the
> > > bugs. Of course, this does not mean that we ignore the bugs but
> > > there will always be times when bugs are not looked at for a long
> > > time.
> > > 
> > > > I've got a weird one where kmail randomly does not download an
> > > > email from my POP3 mail box on my ISP's servers.  It creates a
> > > > dummy email with the following data (number of UID35 lines can
> > > > differ from one to over 10)
> > > > 
> > > > ==============================
> > > > Status: R
> > > > 
> > > >  X-Status: N
> > > > 
> > > > X-KMail-EncryptionState:
> > > >  X-KMail-SignatureState:
> > > > 
> > > >  X-KMail-MDN-Sent:
> > > > Subject:
> > > > Date: Sunday 07 Feb 2106
> > > > From:
> > > > To:
> > > > 
> > > > 1 UID35-1224801402
> > > > 2
> > > > UID36-1224801402
> > > > 3
> > > > UID37-1224801402
> > > > =======================================
> > > 
> > > This looks like the reply to a request for the list of message
> > > UIDs. It seems the POP server does not behave as KMail expects and
> > > thus KMail confuses the server's reply for a message.
> > > 
> > > When did the bug first occur? After an upgrade of KDE/KMail?
> > 
> > i've just upgraded to opensuse 11.3 / KMail Version 1.13.5
> > Using KDE Development Platform 4.4.4 (KDE 4.4.4) "release 2"
> > and the problem still exists.
> > Unfortunately this means i'll have to use either the web-based ISP
> > access or try Thunderbird for my business needs. At least my
> > Blackberry gets the emails correctly.
> 
> Without access to your ISP's server this is hard to debug.
> 
> I had a quick look at the other open POP3 related bugs in KMail. There
> does not seem to be a similar bug, so the problem you are experiencing
> does not appear to be widespread.
> 
> Due to the upcoming switch of KMail to the new backend Akonadi (which
> includes a newly written component for accessing POP3 servers) we will
> most likely not look into your problem. We simply do not have the
> resources to fix bugs in components which will be replaced very soon.
> I'm sorry.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ingo
I've now changed to using fetchmail to get the mail from the ISP and using 
Kmail to get it from the local user mail database.  This now works properly as 
fetchmail has retrieved all the outstanding mail as well as getting all the 
new mail. It looks like an issue within kmail.

regards

Ian
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