Hi!

I've been using Kmail and Kontact for a year or so and it has been really trouble free. I'm using it on openSUSE 11.2, KDE 4.3.5 and Kmail 1.12.4.

The problem I'm having now is that all of a sudden Kmail doesn't show me new emails. I think it is retrieving them from the POP server but doesn't display them. The reason I think it's retrieving them is that when I log out of openSUSE and then back in again, Kontact is started automatically and displays the new emails before I have internet connection.

I've also tried to restart just Kontact but that doesn't help. Only if I log out and then back in again Kmail is displaying new messages. I have no idea where to start looking for the cause of this so any sort of help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I don't know what could change it, but it sounds as though you have lost your settings for interval checking. Try Settings -> Configure KMail -> Accounts and for each account that you have there, select Modify and check all your settings.

Thanks but it's not just interval checking. I'm using interval checking and also regularly doing a manual check but it doesn't help. Sometimes it display new emails fine for an hour or so after login, but then all of a sudden stops to show the new emails. And also like I said, it still receives the new emails but doesn't display them, not in inbox nor any other folder. But after logout and login, before I get my internet connection up, they popup like new emails so they have to be locally stored but not displayed.

It must be corruption somewhere, I think. Try renaming ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc to kmailrc.old (with kontact/kmail closed, of course) then restart kmail and see if it still occurs.