Dennis and Eddie ... I have obsurved the same bug. You did a good job of characterizing it. Any ideas about a reliable way to report it to the resposnible entity? ... Reed, alta@alta-research.com On Sunday 13 January 2002 00:33, you wrote:
Thanks Dennis
Actually, I was not so much concerned about the timing out as the need to restart kmail. If I start kmail and then make an internet connection, sending and retrieving mail works fine. If I start kmail but forget to start a connection and attempt to send or retrieve, it fails. If I then make a connection and try to send or retrieve it continues to fail until I restart kmail. It would be nice if on failure kmail reset itself or had some way (a button or something) of resetting it without having to restart the whole thing. Maybe it is something to submit to the developers?
Eddie
On Saturday 12 January 2002 4:37 pm, you wrote:
Could it be that your connection is timing out? If it is, set the time-out to longer or to 0.
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 09:13:50 +0000, Edward Howson wrote:
Often when using kmail, usually while writing an email message, my connection to my ISP dies. I restart the connection but when I try to send or receive messages it fails and I get a connection error message. I have to close and re-open kmail to restore functionality. Is there a way around this? It's kind of annoying.
Thanks
Eddie
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you should post it to the kmail-list... all the devs are sitting there... they're the best crowd to ask... and if it's not known and not filed as a bug yet, they'll tell you how to report that correctly... Hansen On Sunday 13 January 2002 20:04, alta wrote:
Dennis and Eddie ...
I have obsurved the same bug. You did a good job of characterizing it. Any ideas about a reliable way to report it to the resposnible entity?
... Reed, alta@alta-research.com
On Sunday 13 January 2002 00:33, you wrote:
Thanks Dennis
Actually, I was not so much concerned about the timing out as the need to restart kmail. If I start kmail and then make an internet connection, sending and retrieving mail works fine. If I start kmail but forget to start a connection and attempt to send or retrieve, it fails. If I then make a connection and try to send or retrieve it continues to fail until I restart kmail. It would be nice if on failure kmail reset itself or had some way (a button or something) of resetting it without having to restart the whole thing. Maybe it is something to submit to the developers?
Eddie
On Saturday 12 January 2002 4:37 pm, you wrote:
Could it be that your connection is timing out? If it is, set the time-out to longer or to 0.
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 09:13:50 +0000, Edward Howson wrote:
Often when using kmail, usually while writing an email message, my connection to my ISP dies. I restart the connection but when I try to send or receive messages it fails and I get a connection error message. I have to close and re-open kmail to restore functionality. Is there a way around this? It's kind of annoying.
Thanks
Eddie
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Same problem here. A way around it is to e.g. ping your mail server (or just the internet) to start up the connection. In that case there is no need to restart kmail. Op zondag 13 januari 2002 20:04, schreef alta:
> >Often when using kmail, usually while writing an email message, > > my connection to my ISP dies. I restart the connection but > > when I try to send or receive messages it fails and I get a > > connection error message. I have to close and re-open kmail to > > restore functionality. Is there a way around this? It's kind > > of annoying.
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On Sunday 13 January 2002 21:20, Richard Bos wrote:
Same problem here. A way around it is to e.g. ping your mail server (or just the internet) to start up the connection. In that case there is no need to restart kmail.
if that's really the solution for you guys, I have just written a little script that I start as Precommand for the first pop-server in the list: <start of script> #!/bin/sh # # little script to trigger a dialup # # (c) 2002 by Johannes Liedtke (mail@liedtkeweb.de) # a=1 until [ $a = 0 ] do ping -c 1 -w 30 www.liedtkeweb.de a=$? done <end of script> it'll send out a single ping each 30 seconds and stops as soon as one got through... thus resulting in taking up no time when a connection is already there and letting kmail start checking for mail only when the connection is up... works great so far... (been using it to trigger diald on my server) Hansen
Op zondag 13 januari 2002 20:04, schreef alta:
> >Often when using kmail, usually while writing an email message, > > my connection to my ISP dies. I restart the connection but > > when I try to send or receive messages it fails and I get a > > connection error message. I have to close and re-open kmail to > > restore functionality. Is there a way around this? It's kind > > of annoying.
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Is this really a kmail bug, or does kmail show another problem here. I see the same when using konqueror. If there is no ppp connection to the ISP and a select a link in konqueror, it won't show up... However, opening another konqueror and selecting the same link it is now shown in konqueror, becuase the 1st instance created the ppp link..... Op zondag 13 januari 2002 20:04, schreef alta:
Dennis and Eddie ...
I have obsurved the same bug. You did a good job of characterizing it. Any ideas about a reliable way to report it to the resposnible entity?
... Reed, alta@alta-research.com
On Sunday 13 January 2002 00:33, you wrote:
Thanks Dennis
Actually, I was not so much concerned about the timing out as the need to restart kmail. If I start kmail and then make an internet connection, sending and retrieving mail works fine. If I start kmail but forget to start a connection and attempt to send or retrieve, it fails. If I then make a connection and try to send or retrieve it continues to fail until I restart kmail. It would be nice if on failure kmail reset itself or had some way (a button or something) of resetting it without having to restart the whole thing. Maybe it is something to submit to the developers?
Eddie
On Saturday 12 January 2002 4:37 pm, you wrote:
Could it be that your connection is timing out? If it is, set the time-out to longer or to 0.
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 09:13:50 +0000, Edward Howson wrote:
Often when using kmail, usually while writing an email message, my connection to my ISP dies. I restart the connection but when I try to send or receive messages it fails and I get a connection error message. I have to close and re-open kmail to restore functionality. Is there a way around this? It's kind of annoying.
Thanks
Eddie
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