Em Domingo 29 Junho 2008, cr escreveu: > Any time after heavy rain, Telescum delivers more line noise than > signal to my modem. I get bits of signal, long periods of > inactivity, and every now and then the modem just gives up and drops > off line. > > What makes this even more annoying are a couple of features of Kmail > - 1. Kmail downloads all the waiting messages before deleting any > off the server > 2. Hitting 'Check Mail' has NO effect (i.e. sends no signal) if > there are still messages in the current batch waiting to download > > So if there are say 100 messages, and it drops after 90, then when I > redial, 'Check Mail' has no effect. And if I close Kmail, then > restart it, it will start downloading all 100 messages all over > again, and if the modem drops again then this can go on for ever.... > > Is there any way to get Kmail to delete each message off the ISP's > server as soon as it is downloaded? > > And, is there any way to persuade Kmail to poke the server with a > sharp stick to wake it up and demand it resumes sending messages? You can try to manually stop the download of mensages after a certain number of them has arrived. KMail shall then delete that ones from the server and stop. Then you check mail again to get some more, and so on. []'s Marcelo ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.