Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (107 mails)

[Kevin McLauchlan <kmclauchlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure if this is:

a) operator error
b) working as designed
c) a bug
d) other.

On the company POP3 server, we have "inbox" and several 
other folders. After I start K-Mail, a click on the server 
name (or on the server's "inbox" folder) causes K-Mail to 
request authentication, and then to commence download of my 
mail. However, if I select another folder before the 
download has finished, the process stops and I get an error 
message saying that it died unexpectedly before completion. 

In other words, while downloading 300 messages from the POP 
server, I can't go read my already-sorted mail without 
unintentionally (often) killing the server connection.  Is 
that the way it's supposed to work, and what other people 
experience?

My impression is that this is not 100%, but it has happened 
several times. I'm reluctant to repeat for verification, 
because a premature disconnect means the messages do not 
get deleted at the server. I already have many hundreds of 
duplicates.

/kevin