KMail 1.11.2 insists on connecting at startup

Colin J Thomson - G6AVK colin at g6avk.demon.co.uk
Sat Apr 25 20:41:13 UTC 2009


Hi Anne,

On Saturday 25 April 2009 21:28:21 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On my netbook I wanted to set KMail to only collect mail when I ask it to.
> That's how I set it in the GUI, yet it connects immediately on startup.  

Where did you set this?

> I presume this is a bug.  I really want to change this behaviour before I
> take the netbook on holiday, so is it possible to edit a file somewhere?  I
> did look in kmailrc, but didn't spot the problem.  I can see
> 'check-interval=0' for the Roaming account, but nothing about that original
> check.  Any idea where this setting is stored?

How about Setting Kmail to "work offline" in the File menu, you just get a nag 
screen telling you this everytime you start it, choose work offline and then I 
guess you could disable the interval checking.

Of course I could be way off here :)

Colin
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