Kmail won't fetch mail.

[C. Wizard]

Kmail has suddenly stopped retrieving e-mail.
I can send, but not receive.

When instructed to check mail there is no response of any kind and no error message.

I've gone so far as to un-install KMail and erase any trace of it, and start from scratch, but no luck.

Any ideas on how to fix this problem would be
greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[wladicus]

Hi C. Wizard,
I do not think that I can help with your KMail situation, but perhaps you would like to switch to Evolution instead. I am running Evolution in Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and it is great. It is a mail programme as well as a calendar utility. If it is not already installed (mine wasn't) then you can download it from a terminal simply by typing the following:
sudo apt-get install evolution. :)

[C. Wizard]

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give Evolution a try.

[C. Wizard]

Hi C. Wizard,
I do not think that I can help with your KMail situation, but perhaps you would like to switch to Evolution instead. I am running Evolution in Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and it is great. It is a mail programme as well as a calendar utility. If it is not already installed (mine wasn't) then you can download it from a terminal simply by typing the following:. :)
Well, I tried it and liked the look and feel, but it has, IMHO, some serious drawbacks.

The fact you have to install plugins to get some functions that are built-in to other e-mail clients should have been a hint.

Perhaps I just haven't been able to figure out what I want to do, but I don't think that is the case, so I'm going to have to pass on
Evolution until it evolves a bit more. :)

Thanks, again, for the suggestion.

At this point, after 21 years of using personal computers and around 14 years on
the Internet, I would have to say that KMail
is the best mail client I've used to date.
As it is part of KDEPIM it can be used with
a calendar, address book, etc.
The second best e-mail client, IMHO, would be
Thunderbird, but it is a distant second to KMail.
Now if I can just get KMail to start retrieving mail again. Perhaps KMail for KDE 4.xx? It can be used inside of KDE 3.5.10.

[kiatoa]

I have a similar problem. Kmail will download email a few times then stop. If I push the download button it just silently fails. If I log out and log back in again then downloading will work again for a while.