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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: requirements?
From:       Don Sanders <dsanders () cch ! com ! au>
Date:       1999-11-28 22:49:50
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Add "the pop account code is broken" to my list of known problems. Because I use
fetchmail I didn't check the pop account code. I wouldn't spend time trying to
troubleshoot it unless you are willing to debug the code (which I'm hoping will
be rewritten soon).

For an immediate solution use fetchmail. In one sense it is a workaround but in
another sense it is the right thing to do. Really you shouldn't need
the mail client GUI running in order to collect your mail.

If you stil want to try fixing the kmail pop support uncomment the code in
kmaccountpop.cpp that is commented out and contains the comment "Kurt deleted
this have to ask why".

I believe Kurt was the last person to mess with the kmail pop code,
I'm not to sure whether that was on purpose or not. Kurt any comment?

I'm referring to this range of commits by you:
http://kdecvs.stud.fh-heilbronn.de/cvsweb/kdenetwork/kmail/kmacctpop.cpp.diff?r1=1.56&r2=1.58

Followed by this commit by me:
http://kdecvs.stud.fh-heilbronn.de/cvsweb/kdenetwork/kmail/kmacctpop.cpp.diff?r1=1.58&r2=1.59

BFN,
Don.

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, dep wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Don Sanders wrote:
> 
> |Dep I suspect you use a pop server. I turned the progress dialog off, it is 
> |just to damn annoying, so kmail is working it just isn't giving you any 
> |feedback. I'm working on downloading mail in the background.
> 
> i just reread this, and realize that i didn't state the problem very well. when
> i click for new mail, the modem lights flash appropriately and in due course
> they flash back an incoming message of very short duration, after which the
> status line in kmail reports "No new mail available." what puzzles me is that
> with the same kmailrc., kmail 1.0.28 does in fact get mail, which is what makes
> me wonder about whether i've misconfigured something elsewhere. meanwhile, i
> can browse with konqueror, no problem, and even receive mail with netscape if i
> want, which i don't.
> 
> point is, with an external modem i don't really need the process dialog to see
> if there's anything incoming -- and here, there isn't, and instead there's a
> message that arrives telling me that there is no new mail, when in fact there
> *is* new mail. while setting up fetchmail would be a workaround, part of the
> purpose of the exercise of course is getting things cooking along in kmail. if
> it's broken and is supposed to be, no big deal. but if it's broken and not
> supposed to be, i'll happily do what anybody suggests to try to learn why,
> which information i'll happily pass along.
> 
> --
> dep__________________________________________________________________
>                 2000 is a number that breaks computers.
>                 01-01-01 is when the millennium begins.

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