Bug#428092: Wishlist: why lock up so much?
Package: kmail
Version: 4:3.5.7-1
Severity: wishlist
I've been using kmail as my email client of choice for quite a while. I was recently forced
into upgrading from a dual Athlon 1700 system to a AMD 64X2 4800. Kmail was a big
disappointment after upgrading, as was one web site I like to visit.
Even before upgrading, I was annoyed with kmail going to sleep when processing incoming mail.
If I was using mbox for mail folders, I could understand the locking issues were forcing this.
But I use maildir for all of my active folders, it is only archival folders not yet moved to
SQL that are mbox. Asking around people who have used mdir more than I have, they don't know
of any reason why kmail has to behave this way either.
Specifically, if I am sending an email, there is no reason why kmail has to freeze up if it is
processing an incoming email. I am not doing anything with inbox. Another one that happens,
is if I happen to make the pane with kmail the visible window, and kmail is processing
incoming email, that portion of the screen is frozen.
Is this something which is going to get fixed in the new KDE coming "soon"?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages kmail depends on:
ii kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.5.7-1 core I/O slaves for KDE
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.7.dfsg.1-1 core libraries and binaries for al
ii kdepim-kio-plugins 4:3.5.7-1 KDE pim I/O Slaves
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.19-3 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libaudio2 1.9-2 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii libc6 2.5-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-6 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.2-20070528-1 GCC support library
ii libice6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.6.5-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkcal2b 4:3.5.7-1 KDE calendaring library
ii libkdepim1a 4:3.5.7-1 KDE PIM library
ii libkleopatra1 4:3.5.7-1 KDE GnuPG interface libraries
ii libkmime2 4:3.5.7-1 KDE MIME interface library
ii libkpimidentities1 4:3.5.7-1 KDE PIM user identity information
ii libksieve0 4:3.5.7-1 KDE mail/news message filtering li
ii libmimelib1c2a 4:3.5.7-1 KDE mime library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-2 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.7-4+b1 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.2-20070528-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.8-2 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.1-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-15 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages kmail recommends:
ii procmail 3.22-16 Versatile e-mail processor
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