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 <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? -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>