At 02:34 AM 3/20/2003 -0800, you wrote:
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On Thursday 20 March 2003 12:55 am, PHP wrote:
I've isolated it to the checking of the local mailbox. At 09:34 AM 3/20/2003 +0100, I wrote:
Running 8.0 and KDE 3.0 and Kmail all of a sudden began to freeze when It checks mail. Nothing I can do
Do you have any "filter actions" that include piping through external programs? If so, I'd look to that as a possible culprit (kmail doesn't thread external action/filters -- if what kmails hands a message off to doesn't come back, kmail will be "stalled"...)
that said, I also see in my inbox an inordinately large piece of spam -- subject line is "kick ass, bro!" -- 109k in size, seems to have inline images included [claims to be a back-door entrance to an "age verification" page, thus inferring free access to nekkid pictures, even if you are underage...]
if you got that "spam" [and it somehow got past your pre-filtering stage] then perhaps kmail is choking on that...
Thanks for the reply, and good idea. I had tried deleting all the files in mbox. When the mbox file was empty, everything was fine. As soon as a piece of mail was in there again, though, Kmail froze up like an ice cube. ?