Just let me deal with it please, I know what I'm doing.

I think I just comment out the exit statment for kde 2.2.

There are issues you are most likely not aware of such as 
people are starting up multiple KMails on the same machine 
by using different displays, which can lead to mail loss 
and one of the reasons why I made the change was to stop 
that.

Don

On Wednesday 25 July 2001 08:53, Holger Schurig wrote:
> > The idea is to attempt to prevent mail loss when
> > exceptional events that KMail was not designed to
> > handle occur.
> >
> > In order to prevent mail loss when an external
> > application (like procmail) modifies folder files in
> > ~/Mail I want to check for an out of date index file
> > everywhere that the index file is updated which is in
> > three places.
>
> This is all nice and well.  But it is extremely annoying
> that KMail just terminates and that one can not see any
> reason for this. I doubt that many users open a konsole,
> issue an "ulimit -c 0" command and start KMail by hand,
> just to see that it wasn't a core dump actually ...
>
>
>
> As far as I understand it, this happens in the filter
> code. So, if you think that accessing a mail folder is
> unsafe, then just don't filter the message, leave it in
> it's current place. Put a messagebox on the screen that
> states the problem and that has a "Do not show up again"
> checkbox. I understand that this cannot be done now
> because of feature freeze.
>
> So the better approach would be to just uncomment this
> code. After all, you made a working configuration (/home
> via NFS, no procmail-filtering, KMail get's it's mail via
> POP3 and filters it itself) unworkable. When
> KMail+NFS+Procmail has a problem together, then the
> software that is broken should be fixed. Am I right that
> KMail was not broken ?!?
>
> Greetings, Holger
>
>
>
> PS: I hope my words are not too strong. I don't want to
> attack you or make you uncomfortable. :-)
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