[kdepim-users] Kmail2 is crazy?

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Friday 20 January 2012, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Freitag, 20. Januar 2012 schrieb O. Sinclair:
> > On 20/01/12 08:18, Anders Lund wrote:
> > > On Fredag den 20. januar 2012, O. Sinclair wrote:
> > >> On 19/01/12 22:25, Gabriel wrote:
> > >>> Hello,
> > >>> I use Kmail2 and is mad. I downloaded this afternoon from my
> > >>> server 1202 repeated messages. Some messages were repeated
> > >>> over 20 times. I looked at my web mail before downloading pop
> > >>> messages from the server and only had 3 messages. Kmail2 take
> > >>> to download the same messages over and over again for a week.
> > >>> What I can do? Is there a solution?
> > >> 
> > >> something like this can happen if one mail is very large and the
> > >> connection is slow.
> > > 
> > > Is there a bug report about that? Sounds  like a bug to me!
> > 
> > Have no idea - this happens in most email clients, Outlook
> > included, so I have sort of taken it as "natural" behaviour.
> 
> I never seen anything like this in any mail client I used. But then I
> never used Outlook - except for testing with Zimbra - and I usually
> do not receive insanely large mail attachments. Especially as the
> base64 encoding adds to the mail size.
> 
> I never understood, why there is apparantly no way to include binary
> data as is in mails.

In theory, this is possible if all involved servers support 8-bit. In 
practice, I guess no email client risks losing mail by trying 8-bit 
transport.


Regards,
Ingo
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