KMail even worse

[Timothy Murphy]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

>>> Is anyone except me still using KMail?
> 
>> Yes, I am using it as my only mail program and, yes, I have experienced
>> an occasional crash, and, occasionally it just disappears without a crash
>> notice. These crashes are rare, say once every few days, and I think I
>> might have figured out how to avoid/minimize it: I allow all of the
>> emails to fully download, until the 100% message at the lower right
>> disappears, before clicking on any mail directories or individual emails.
>> This seems to solve (not sure how to verity it) the problem, at least,
>> almost all of the time.
> 
> I've been following this advice,
> and I've had no problems with KMail2 for over 24 hours now (Touch wood),
> which is probably an all-time record.
> (I always used to start reading as soon as the number of new messages
> came up.)

I knew I was tempting fate!
KMail2 crashed 3 times in the next 5 minutes.

Now I'm trying the other suggested cure,
and have disabled Nepomuk Desktop Search Services.
Kmail hasn't crashed for 15 minutes ...

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Timothy Murphy  
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