On Friday 22 June 2007 14:34, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My patience with kmail is rapidly coming to an end. All those who wish
> kmail to survive another week on my machine are asked to voice their
> objections now.
>
> I use it within kontact, and every second day or so I can no longer
> access my gmail account using pop3. 'killall kio_pop3' tends to fix
> this so I assume it's some kind of locking issue. But I also have two
> other pop3 accounts where this does not happen, and I can invariably
> get to gmail in a browser when kmail locks up.
>
> Anyone know of a solution? I have a perfectly normal install:
>
> nazgul ~ # eix kmail
> [I] kde-base/kmail
>      Available versions:  (3.5)  3.5.5-r1 3.5.5-r2 (~)3.5.6-r1 (~)
> 3.5.6-r2 (~)3.5.6-r3 (~)3.5.7
>      Installed versions:  3.5.7(3.5)(00:45:57 06/04/07)(-arts
> crypt -debug -elibc_FreeBSD kdeenablefinal -xinerama)
>      Homepage:            http://www.kde.org/
>      Description:         KMail is the email component of Kontact, the
> integrated personal information manager of KDE.
>
> nazgul ~ # eix kontact
> [I] kde-base/kontact
>      Available versions:  (3.5)  3.5.5 (~)3.5.6 (~)3.5.7
>      Installed versions:  3.5.7(3.5)(21:23:12 06/04/07)
> (-arts -debug -elibc_FreeBSD kdeenablefinal -xinerama)
>      Homepage:            http://www.kde.org/
>      Description:         KDE personal information manager

I am using the stable kontact/kmail packages and do not have any problem 
accessing my gmail account.  Assuming that yours is correctly configured and 
there are no network problems, I can only point the finger at the testing 
versions you are running.

BTW, a couple of weeks ago I *did* have problems accessing Gmail, which I 
attributed to the gmail pop server.  It only lasted a couple of days and 
since then popping Gmail has been trouble free.

It may be worth trying openssl to connect to Gmail on the command line to 
troubleshoot it, if  you are still getting failures to connect.
-- 
Regards,
Mick