Description of Problem: kmail attempts to read in the entire home directory contents when using imap to a RHL 7.3 mail server. If there is for example, a few thousand files in the home directory (e.g. in ~/export there exists a RHL tree, kmail will take a long time seemingly stalled, before then displaying hundreds of KNotify messages: """ Cannot Open file <blah> Too many open files. """ Given the hundreds of windows that try to appear, X invariably freezes. Anybody w/ a large home directory may see this problem - and this must be v.frustrating. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Seen in KDE 3.0.0 and 3.0.1. How Reproducible: Consistent, even on different machines. Steps to Reproduce: 1. add a few thousand files into a directory just off ~ 2. start kmail for first time and configure imap e-mail. 3. allow kmail to check imap mail and folders for first time. Actual Results: kmail and the entire X session basically die. Expected Results: kmail should read what it can, potentially not even try to explore directories until you expand them! Knotify should certainly not report hundreds of individual errors. Additional Information:
it's not reproduceable in current release.