[Discuss] picking up mail.

[R. McFarlane]

On 10/16/06 10:39 AM, blackcrow wrote:

> Greetings all.
> 
> I've been having an odd problem with kmail for a least a few months.  What 
> happens is that kmail is not picking up mail from shaw's servers reliably.
> 
> I discovered this when I was setting up an install while configuring kmail.  I 
> noticed mail was being picked up that I didn't know was being held on the 
> server.  So far the problem is stuck with me through 3 installs (building my 
> new machine, etc)
> 
> In order to pick up my email with kmail now, I need to open the kmail 
> settings, open an account dialogue with "modify" and simply close it 
> with "ok"; then kmail gets the mail.
> 
> I used evolution and thunderbird to reliably pickup email while I've been 
> trying to sort this out. 
> 
> I'm running debian testing amd64  kmail 1.9.5 exim4 (4.63-3) procmail 
> (3.22-16)
> 
> It would be great, if anyone has any ideas, as where to go with this.  
> Otherwise my next step is to try replacing exim with another MTA and then 
> possibly procmail.
> 
> Thanks for any ideas,
> Chris W.


	If you are downloading your mail direct from the remote server, exim 
and procmail are not involved.
	If ThunderBird and evolution work fine it would appear to be a problem 
with kmail. Have you tried compiling a new version of kmail straight 
from source?

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