Bug#271392: kmail: POP3 message retrieval stops working after 1-2 days

[Shai Berger <shai@platonix.com>]

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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1.1-7    compression library - runtime

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