[Karmic] Kmail, IMAP needs mailbox connection cancel / restart everytime IP address changes

[Swâmi Petaramesh]

Binary package hint: kmail

Hi,

On a laptop with Kmail IMAP setup, when the machine's IP address changes (i.e. the laptop is suspended, moved to another location, resumed and gets a new Wi-Fi or Ethernet connection), Kmail open IMAP session blocks - send-receive action blocks and the send-receive process needs to be manually cancelled and restarted for Kmail to reconnect to server, or one has to wait for a very long timeout.

Same goes when the laptop has been suspended for some time and reconnects to the same network.

Desired behaviour : Kmail should notice that the IP address has changed or a long time has passed without IMAP session activity, and should restart a new IMAP session in such a situation by itself.

Having to cancel the mail process then restart it everytime one suspends his laptop gets somewhat annoying in the long run ;-)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: c728f6fcb25c8f09b83514fdab4966ac
CheckboxSystem: b62ae224500b03a9fc2c9b6caf3feb14
Date: Thu Dec 24 10:07:11 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: kmail 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: kdepim
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:11004): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (firefox:10979): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
 (firefox:32760): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Hi there!

Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. While we appreciate your issue, it would be better if it was tracked at https://bugs.kde.org, so that the KDE developers can deal with this speedily and have direct communication with you as the reporter for more effective debugging.

Thanks!

[Swâmi Petaramesh (swami-petaramesh)]

Link to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220053