Description of problem: kmail will crash sometimes if connectivity is lost at the wrong moment. This is really annoying for users who are on a flaky link (say UMTS on a train). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kdepim-3.5.4-4.fc6 How reproducible: takes a while but will eventually crash Steps to Reproduce: 1. start kmail 2. make sure you have an IMAP server configured 3. set the check mail interval to 2 minutes 4. run the following in a root sheel to simulate flaky link # while true; do echo down;ifdown eth0;sleep 15;echo up;ifup eth0; sleep 30;date;done Actual results: eventually kmail will crash, I've had runs where this reproducer crashed in less than 10 minutres and runs where it took > 30 minutes (at which point I went home for the night to find it crashed in the morning) Expected results: A mail user agent needs to be able to deal with connectivity loss without crashing Additional info: I've installed kdepim-debuginfo-3.5.4-4.fc6.i386.rpm to get a decent backtrace from the kde crash tool. Do tell if you want further tests run.
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