Re: troubleshooting Kmail
On Sunday 18 February 2018 04:11:48 David Baron wrote:
> Kmail has been broken for weeks. No action, just excuses. Might simply
> have to abandon it after all these years.
>
Then look at TDE, its kde forked at about the 3.5 point, with kajillions
of bugs fixed. I'm running it here, works perfect.
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 11:42 PM <mark@neidorff.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday, February 17, 2018 3:59:53 PM EST ernst doubt wrote:
> > > I sent a similar message to debian-kde this morning, but it
> > > appears
> >
> > there's
> >
> > > not much activity there, so I figured I'd also try here.
> > >
> > > I've been a debian GNU/linux user (I like KDE for my desktop,
> > > though I generally keep openbox (and gnome) available as
> > > "fallbacks") for quite
> >
> > some
> >
> > > time now (decades at least) and am in general a very happy user.
> > > I've
> >
> > been
> >
> > > using both thunderbird and claws-mail as IMAP clients for some
> > > time, but recently (a few months ago) I set up Kmail (and I like
> > > it very much, as integration with gnupg was relatively painless).
> > > I am again using it as
> >
> > an
> >
> > > IMAP client (with this gmail address). I have two computers, both
> > > running debian 9 stretch. On one of them (the laptop), Kmail is
> > > functioning properly, but on the desktop machine which I'm writing
> > > from now, incoming email has not been appearing since the end of
> > > January. I don't see any obvious menu entries which would give me
> > > access to log files in order to try to troubleshoot the problem,
> > > so I'm looking for any advice as to how
> >
> > I
> >
> > > might go about correcting the issue so this instance of Kmail can
> > > again receive email (it's possible that the problem is as simple
> > > as an incorrectly entered password though I've just attempted to
> > > reenter it
> >
> > with
> >
> > > no improvement in mail fetching behavior). I'm not currently
> > > subscribed
> >
> > to
> >
> > > this list, so CCing me is perfectly fine (though I'll monitor the
> > > web archives for responses on which I may not be CCed).
> > >
> > > thanks so much in advance for any clues anyone may have to
> > > share with
> >
> > me,
> >
> > > ~c
> >
> > Ernst,
> >
> > Things that come to mind...
> > The way IMAP works is e-mail is delivered to the mail server
> > (google/gmail, is
> > what I think you said). Your client (kmail, thunderbird, etc) reads
> > an email
> > message from the server. Then, depending on configuration, the
> > message is saved
> > or deleted? So, check your configuration to be sure that the IMAP
> > server is
> > configured to leave mail on the server after being read.
> > Also, have you checked that the version of kmail is the same on both
> > computers?
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > Have you ckecked the version of each instance of kmail?
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