Package: kmail Version: 4:3.3.0-2 Severity: normal I have the bad habit of leaving my KDE session open, at times for days. Since KDE 3.3 was introduced, I've noticed twice that KMail stopped retrieving my messages after being open for a day or two -- both automatically, and manually (i.e. pressing the "check mail" button does nothing).
I found that quitting (both the application and the mail-notification applet) and restarting KMail does not help. Shutting down and restarting the KDE session did help. When I checked deeper, I found that some kmail process stayed alive after I quit KMail; killing it and restarting kmail also fixed the problem. So I have an easy, expensive workaround which makes me feel like I'm in Windows (log out and log back in), and a cheap workaround which requires killing processes manually. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-lck1 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages kmail depends on: ii kdelibs4 4:3.3.0-1.1 KDE core libraries ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-7 GCC support library ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libkcal2 4:3.3.0-2 KDE calendaring library ii libkdenetwork2 4:3.3.0-2 KDE Network library ii libkdepim1 4:3.3.0-2 KDE PIM library ii libkleopatra0 4:3.3.0-2 KDE GnuPG interface libraries ii libkpimidentities1 4:3.3.0-2 KDE PIM user identity information ii libksieve0 4:3.3.0-2 KDE mail/news message filtering li ii libmimelib1 4:3.3.0-2 KDE mime library ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-7 PNG library - runtime ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.3-4 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii perl 5.8.4-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-7 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information
