On June 5, 2002 03:53, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
I'm not sure if this is:
a) operator error b) working as designed surely not
c) a bug may be
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?
I do this very often, and no crash. However I remember seeing occasionally crashes before. may be they dissapeared with the upgrade to kde3
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.
Try kshowmail from Mr. Eggert, it is a good tool for cleaning your mail server from duplicates and unwanted mail. I use it to delete spam from my public mail accounts before even downloading it into kmail. HTH, Matt T.