Your message with subj: Bug#28021: kmail sends SMTP mail repeatedly

On Tuesday 31 July 2001 10:23, Ian Thurlbeck wrote:
> Dear Don
>
> I have never seen the bug again, so no, I can't repeat
> it.

I see. Thanks for responding.

> I had a quick look at the source code and I notice that
> kmsender.cpp does lots of trickery with signal/slots
> idle()->slotIdle() and even send() can be called
> recursively.  Is there a possibility that there is some
> race condition that makes doSendMsg loop (and loop...)

Yes the code is a little complicated unfortunately.

> If you think this isn't possible, then please close the
> bug report.  If I ever see it again, you'll here from
> me soon after!

Ok, I'll close it. I did fix some bugs in that code, maybe 
I got lucky and fixed it.

Don.

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Subject: kmail sends SMTP mail repeatedly
From: ian@stams.strath.ac.uk

Package:           kmail
Version:           1.2 (using KDE 2.1.1 )
Severity:          normal
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
Compiler:          gcc-2.96-81
OS:                Linux
OS/Compiler notes: RH 7.1 default

I replied to a simple text email, and on
clicking "Send" kmail went into a tight
loop sending the message to the SMTP
server again and again. I had to
kill the kmail process to stop it.
This is similar to bug #25815 which was
closed on assumption it was a sendmail
problem (sorry I didn't know how to re-open it).  We use qmail-smtpd here (1.01).

I have used kmail for 2 years or so and never had this problem.  I've been using
kde-2.1.1 with RH7.1 for about a month
and it's only happened once - so maybe
it is a problem that only arises when there
is something up with the smtp server? 
Anyway - kmail shouldn't (MUST NOT!)
send a message again and again without
limit whatever the cause.

Thanks for your time and many thanks
for the effort on kmail - much appreciated!

Yours
Ian


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