Bug#294169: kmail should handle disconnection gracefully

[Martin Emrich <emme@emmes-world.de>]

Package: kmail
Version: 4:3.3.2-1
Severity: normal


Hi!

When I start kmail (or kontact) when there is no network connection
(on my notebook, I start them on demand depending on where I am),
it tries to connect to my configured IMAP servers and displays
error messages for each that the server could not be reached.
after this, I have to exit kmail (or kontact) and manually kill
every kio_newimap(s) process and restart kmail, If I am lucky,
I can get a connection.

Please add a little "terminate all IMAP/whatever connection" to
kmail, maybe in the status bar where the "cancel operation" button
is. Or am I overlooking something?

Thanks

Martin Emrich

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)

Versions of packages kmail depends on:
ii  kdelibs4                 4:3.3.2-1       KDE core libraries
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                  1:3.4.3-7       GCC support library
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libkcal2a                4:3.3.2-1       KDE calendaring library
ii  libkdenetwork2           4:3.3.2-1       KDE Network library
ii  libkdepim1               4:3.3.2-1       KDE PIM library
ii  libkleopatra0a           4:3.3.2-1       KDE GnuPG interface libraries
ii  libkpimidentities1       4:3.3.2-1       KDE PIM user identity information 
ii  libksieve0               4:3.3.2-1       KDE mail/news message filtering li
ii  libmimelib1a             4:3.3.2-1       KDE mime library
ii  libpng12-0               1.2.8rel-1      PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3c102-mt            3:3.3.3-8       Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5               1:3.3.5-8       The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  perl                     5.8.4-6         Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-4       compression library - runtime

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