Re: KMail locks up

On Mon June 7 2010, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 07 June 2010 18:31:15 John Aldrich wrote:
> > On Mon June 7 2010, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > I think that if anything was left over, still running, KMail
> > > wouldn't start a new session - or at least would warn you of the
> > > possibility. How recent is your version?  This could be very
> > > important.  Quite long freezes were common a while back, but were
> > > cured some time ago - I'm not sure whether that was in late 4.3 or
> > > early 4.4 days.
> > 
> > I'm still running F11, KMail 1.13.3 and KDE 4.4.3. As I said, I can
> > kill everything and restart, and it works fine from then on, but it's
> > freezing up after I shut down my remote session, drive home (~60
> > minutes) and start up KMail again.
> 
> Is 4.4.3 the latest you can get?  I'd certainly recommend updating if
> you can. I think you'll find that the problem disappears if you do.
> 
Ok. I upgraded to Fedora 13, which is the "bleeding edge" version of Linux. 
i'm still stuck on 4.4.3 and still having the lock-up problems. :-(

This time I was typing a message and KMail just totall froze on me. a "ps -
aux | grep mail" showed KMail was in the process of trying to POP email. Is 
this what is causing problems? The fact that I'm trying to POP email while 
typing a message? Say it ain't so! Just doesn't make any sense that a 
modern email client can't receive email while typing a message? FWIW, I've 
got plenty of resources left, memory-wise...
[john@slave1 ~]$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3929076    3229360     699716          0     246976    1976208
-/+ buffers/cache:    1006176    2922900
Swap:      2059112       5360    2053752

Any idea on how to fix it?

thanks!