Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail editor freezes

[Daniel D Jones <ddjones@riddlemaster.org>]

On Sunday, October 10, 2010 03:06:08 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Another clue is that it does a very similar thing when I press the Send
> > button.  It freezes for about ten to fifteen seconds before sending.
> 
> I agree it's likely caused by some network resource, I get similar things
> happening to me (to use imap on exchange and it's addressbook from home I
> have to run ssh tunnels through to the exchange machines. It's *easy* to
> forget to run the script that sets them up)
> 
> Look for things like imap stores not available and the hard one to track
> down is accessing addressbooks using LDAP. The passwords are not stored in
> kwallet! Check your various KResources configs and grep for likely
> passwords in ~/.kde4/share/config

I'm still looking and investigating.  No luck yet.

It doesn't appear to be a network problem for a couple of reasons.  I run my 
own mail server and it's sitting right here on my local subnet.  There's no 
problem communicating with it on either port 25 or 110.  (I don't use imap, so 
that isn't involved.)  Kmail itself doesn't exhibit any symptoms when I'm 
reading mail.  It's only when I have Composer open.

I'm not using LDAP or any sort of external addressbook, and I'm not sure why 
Composer would be accessing the addressbook while I'm in the middle of writing 
an email.  I can see it happening on either opening or closing Composer, but 
not mid sentence.  (Which, of course, doesn't mean it isn't happening.  I'm 
just not sure why it would.)

The only external resource I can think of that Composer would be accessing as 
I'm writing is the spellchecker and turning off automatic (ie inline) 
spellchecking doesn't mitigate the issue.

Is anyone using or tried to use an external editor with Kmail recently?  If 
not, would someone be willing to take a moment and attempt to do so and see if 
it works correctly for you?

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