Kmail has been broken for weeks. No action, just excuses. Might simply have to abandon it after all these years.
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 11:42 PM <m...@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? > >
