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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Kmail
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-01-02 11:40:15
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On Sunday 31 December 2000 19:52, you wrote:
> Not a bug report, really, just a couple of suggestions (if not fixed
> already)...
>
> I'm running Kmail 1.0.29, by the way, and I find it generally excellent.

Please upgrade to Kde-2.0.x
Besides that I forward your ideas to kmail's mailing list for the developers.

> 1.   When retrieving messages, beside showing the number of messages
> downloaded and total to go  (as in,   " 9/20       45% " ), could the Kmail
> 'Retrieving' window also show the size or % done of the message currently
> being retrieved?      This is relevant because sometimes messages arrive
> with several-hundred-K  size file attachments, and it's very useful to know
> how big the currently-loading  message is.    I think this information is
> available from the mailserver with each message, I seem to recall Pegasus
> Mail in Win 3.1 used to show it.
>
> 2.   When retrieving messages, if the line drops or the Internet connection
> hangs, Kmail seems to lock up.   The Abort button only seems to work in
> between messages, so doesn't help if the message is 'stuck' and sometimes I
> have to Kill Kmail from the window manager.     Occasionally, when I do
> this in the middle of retrieving say 50 messages, after I've reloaded Kmail
> and reconnected, it starts retrieving from the start again, so I get two
> copies of all the messages up to the point where it hung up.
>
>
> Please don't regard these as major complaints, altogether I'm very pleased
> with Kmail and KDE in general and very, very happy I decided to install
> Linux.
>
> Chris
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